To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
Freedom begins between the ears.
I am an enemy of the State. But isn’t everyone?
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or ‘manage’ or ‘exercise stewardship’ in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
If it’s knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
Grown men do not need leaders.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.