To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

- Michael Ventura

We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjecte…

- Michael Ventura

These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that un…

- Michael Ventura

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

- Michael Ventura

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts …

- Michael Ventura

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

- Michael Ventura

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is su…

- Michael Ventura

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I …

- Michael Ventura

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

- Michael Ventura