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  • We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. – Calvin Coolidge

  • My meaningless office job:  they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes. – Carrie Latet

  • In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. – Robert Green Ingersoll

  • 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 booklets.  Does anyone else see the problem here? – Brock Fiant

  • 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.  Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we’ll soon find government…

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 commercials. – John Fischer

  • 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 and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes…

  • 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

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

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