Scott Nearing

“If there is no bread, there is no law. If there is no justice, there is no peace.”

“Abstain from animal foods.”

“Work is a pleasure and a privilege. It is an opportunity to be creative.”

“Do the thing you believe in, and do it with all your might.”

“The good life is a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“Sanity consists in discovering what is your vital balance and then living it.”

“We cannot have a peaceful world until we have a peaceful people.”

“Do the best you can, in the place where you are, and be kind.”

“Our object is to make a living, not to get rich.”

“Learn from your mistakes, but don't cry over them. Forgive yourself and move on.”

“Capitalism is a system of organized economic warfare.”

“The production of wealth is the result of expenditure of human energy, mental and physical. In the last analysis, the human race lives by labor.”

“The good life is to be lived, not just talked about.”

“Live a simple, orderly, and productive life.”

“Every oppressive system will be met with resistance.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our people has been a failure in so far as it has not taught them to think.”

“An empire is a system of organized plunder.”

“A man who does not think for himself is not a man at all.”

“We sought a livelihood that would be simple, secure, and within our own control.”