A Quote by Bill Mollison

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

Bill Mollison

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Bill Mollison
Australian - Author
1928 - September 24, 2016

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.

Rajneesh

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

Bill Mollison

'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.

Benjamin B. Dunlap

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

Ted Trainer

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

Ed Begley, Jr.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

John Locke

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

Michael Leunig

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

Duane Elgin

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Galen Starr Ross

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Phillips Brooks

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

Phillips Brooks

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

Martin Luther

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.