An empty man is full of himself.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialAn empty man is full of himself.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll living things on earth are kindred.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCongress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPreacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAny hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRoosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSaving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMost academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBaseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.