It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
War is the Health of the State.
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
Courage is the virtue of the free.
I'm a chick for sure.
The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy. . . to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up. " The ecological thought ". . . is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.