How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
The less of one’s life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.
I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.