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To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.


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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.



We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.



School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.



The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.



Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.



We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.



The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.



School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.



Schools teach the need to be taught.

Schools teach the need to be taught.



Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.





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Every human being on earth is the same and our very being is crying out for same need.

Every human being on earth is the same and our very being is crying out for same need.



I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!



What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson



It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.



Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.

Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.



Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.



Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.



I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.



We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.



Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.




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