Monthly Archives: October 2011

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.  -  Robert Greene Ingersoll

Posted on October 31, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting … Continue reading →

Posted on October 30, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

Depressed?  Of course we’re all depressed.  We’ve been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant.  The further society “progresses,” the grander the scale of imbalance.  … Continue reading →

Posted on October 29, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.  -  Charles Wagner

Posted on October 28, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, “You can’t keep a good man down.” Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.  -  John W. Gardner

Posted on October 27, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli… don’t seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV … Continue reading →

Posted on October 26, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd.  You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.  It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas … Continue reading →

Posted on October 25, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

Do not waste your time on Social Questions.  What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.  -  George Bernard Shaw

Posted on October 24, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.  -  Swami Nirmalananda

Posted on October 23, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.  -  Krishnamurti

Posted on October 22, 2011 by pixi | Leave a comment