“That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time -- that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permissions to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but they still like joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kinds of was. That was what community was. All those layers of understanding.”
Source: The 57 Bus
“To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.”
Source: Philosophic Nights in Paris
“Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.”
Source: Songs for the Missing
“When unmoderated materialism is the world's norm, consumer is the product, product does the consuming.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“The more you seek happiness in vacation, possession and admiration, the more miserable you'll be. Forgetting all that lift another soul, and you'll have all the happiness you truly need.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“I am too busy to waste time discussing people,
People who can't tell suffering from inconvenience.
My people are the meek, my people are the destitute,
My people are those too hungry to pass judgment.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Policy is to be guided by peace not purse, World is to be run by love not wallet.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“80 percent of the things we buy, are not because we need them, but because our subconscious mind is trying to fill an unfillable hole in our life.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Uncorked materialism is new cannibalism.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Materialism normalized as abundance
chains freedom, and renders life a cripple.
True abundance instills content not clutter,
Actual needs of life are rather little.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets