Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their pos…

- B. Traven

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

- B. Traven

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can st…

- B. Traven

The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glitt…

- B. Traven

A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if yo…

- B. Traven

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There woul…

- B. Traven

My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more import…

- B. Traven

The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized stat…

- B. Traven

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

- B. Traven