Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Simplicity is always a virtue.
Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
A pretty girl can do no wrong.
You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.
Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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