A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
Philosophy, Hope, Freedom
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
Philosophy, Music
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
Philosophy, Belief
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.
Philosophy, Wisdom
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
Philosophy
We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.
Philosophy, Youth
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Philosophy, Mind
When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.
Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;
Philosophy, Religion
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
Philosophy, Psychology, Society
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
Philosophy, God, Spirituality
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Philosophy, Christianity