When no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

We are all basically scams and if you haven't found that - you are very unconscious. I know all sorts of people who are full of outward love, but of course it …

You can't get rid of your hallucination of being an ego by an activity of the ego. Sorry, but it can't be done . . . If you try to get rid of your ego with you…

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without …

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people …