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- Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of…
- We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
- For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
- The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty…
- If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the…
- Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a…
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner…
- A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good…
- In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value…
- True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly…
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is…
- When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference…
- A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means…
- The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
- A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and…
- The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to…
- How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we…
- It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn…
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
- Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures…
- The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have…
- Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour