Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.
We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn’t have to answer to anyone else.
The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.
You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don’t know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.
It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know, you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.
If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That’s love.
You don’t need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
If you remain conventional and don’t change, you’ll get along. You’ll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You’ll never be able to keep a marriage together, you’ll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn’t together.
If you had a free society you couldn’t get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.
I don’t want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.
LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
You really don’t want a job. What you want is access to those things you’d like to have.
Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren’t based on scientific studies.
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.
Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.