Nikolai Nikobar

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• “Human-scale. Farming, building, transport, infrastructure, organisation, health, education, art, music, preferably barefoot, with psychedelics.”

 

• “Everyday I move one step closer to becoming a more successful misfit.”

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• “On the other side of the wall there is a growing, loosely knit tribe, creating parallel systems and alternative ways of living and being. Find each other. Connect. In an extreme capitalist society, sharing becomes a revolutionary act.”​

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• “Born to consume. Reborn to say fuck off!”

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• “Oh? Has my language become too obscene and vulgar for you? Maybe I should take note from the friendly utterances of the child buggering priesthood.”

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• “Why don't you take a gap year? As if there is only one kind of 'real life' that is available to you, but you are allowed to have a little gap if you want to.”

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• “I finished architecture school after six years of training only to meet an old man in a 'developing' country using a machete in a way that told me: I know nothing.”

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• “I like my coffee black. No sugar, no hipsters.”​

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• “Your digital life looks fucking amazing.”​

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• “I long for the forest, the birds and the bees. Capitalists make me sick.​”​

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• “What the government wants is for you to be a unit of labour, or unemployed. What the government does not want is for you to be living together communally, harnessing your own energy, growing your own food and becoming self reliant.”

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• “There is no greater robber than a banker.”

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• “If there is to be a future for humanity, it is in the commune within bioregions, not the nation state.”​

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• “Normal people are a great cause of concern for me.”​

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• “Two sexes, one big mess.”

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• “If only Jesus was known for planting trees instead of hanging out on a cross.”

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• “The Corporate Empire needs your help. It will not dismantle itself.”

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• “Find a way to abolish work and you will never have to read a self help guide book again.”

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• “Watch you don't get exploited by the eco-hipsters!”

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• “Where am I from, you ask? I'm from a tangible cosmic dimension via my mother.”

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• “If you can't do it for yourself. Do it for the kids. Destroy corporate advertising.”

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• “I'm a feminist because 10 out of 10 men are wankers.”

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• “Some peoples first sense of community is in an old peoples home.”

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• “The greatest hurdle to our freedom, is not the government. It is in the healing of our relationship to our parents.”

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• “Security is an illusion which we chase and cling to as if our life depended upon it.”

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• “Forget the adults. They’re all fucked up. Talk to the children.”

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• “If you don't know what to do with your life, plant trees.”

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• “Your sanity and self-realization? That is one hefty price to pay for the accumulation of all your money and material riches.”

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• “Protest! Protest! Protest! Protest the mind to listen to the heart.”

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• “I want to live in a place with real men, who don‘t have these little boy obsessions with cars and guns.”

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• “You become what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you become a fuckwit.”

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• “Oh I am so confused. Should I meet the needs of my child or corporation today?”

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• “How things happen just when they need to happen and not when you demand them to.”

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• “Nobody wants to go inside anymore. Nobody wants to go outside. So many people in front of a screen.”

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• “Well adjusted miserable humans.”

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• “The good life. Local communities sharing food and resources. Land shared together.”

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• “Leaders, governments and corporations would rather see people protesting them, than being ignored and boycotted.”

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• “Blue lights glowing in the night sky. Smart phones.”

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• “Ten monkeys. One monkey has taken all the fruits for himself. A second monkey pretends to be the government and takes a portion of fruits from the first monkey. Five monkeys are watching television and eating the scraps left over from the first two monkeys. An eighth monkey is cleaning the toilets. A ninth monkey is screaming for change and the tenth monkey has quit in search of another species.”

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• “The spirit of the rich man can never be free. He lives in perpetual worry and anxiety that we are coming for his balls.”

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• “We all have an inner demon to battle with. Good luck.”

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• “At some point in the history of human beings there was a group that splintered off from the main tribe and started to hoard power and wealth just for themselves. This was the birth of the aristocracy and the privileged class and it is only through the spreading of illusion and the duping of the people that they are able to maintain their wealth and power today.”

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• “It is the greed and hoarding of the rich that is causing environmental and social collapse today, by maintaining poverty and forcing the poor to employ destructive measures for their own short term survival.”

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• “Modern school leavers in search of their souls while the tourist industry makes a fuck load of money.”

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• “Post industrial human is a polymath and generalist.”

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• “Solitude. Like a wild and weary animal, she avoided humans.”

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• “The birth of the new consciousness is like a phoenix rising out of the ashes of the American nightmare.”

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• “In western society we celebrate the flower in full bloom, not the process.”​

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• “There is no standard to fit into. You are the standard.

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• “A baby, not yet separated from its soul by industrial schooling and consumer advertising, has no suicidal inclinations.”

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• “If I am not self-empowered, I must control other people.”

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• “The more I come to terms with my own mortality the wilder I get.”

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• “Abnormal behavior perhaps, but not morally depraved.”

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• “Artistic license. Do you have a permit?”

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• “I have a feeling that the overall unhappiness of people in industrial society is because people feel that they need to pursue a career and choose a particular occupation and then become trapped by it. The conditioning starts very young. What are you going to be when you grow up John? That is why I became an earth punk. I now do many different things and nobody knows what the fuck is going to happen next.”

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• “Psychological breakthrough! I no longer waste my time trying to explain myself to people who are older than me.”

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• “We must have compassion for our elders, but we must also rebel from them at all costs, otherwise the next generation does not stand a fucking chance.”

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• “I have heard many people say that university was the best years of their life. Probably because it was the last years of their life before they became a wage slave.”

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• “The joys of parenthood? Because you get to be a child again yourself? You get to recall that faint memory of being a young anarchist, living in the moment.”

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• “Jane was an spiritual anarchist. She left things alone and nature thrived.”

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• “A twisted ankle, someone turning up at an importune moment, running out of something essential, a power cut, bad weather, love...this is the anarchy of the universe breaking down our routines, our daily habits, our industrial, mechanised life.”

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• “I hope I still live a little bit longer. I feel like this is a truly momentous time to be alive on Facebook.”

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• “Why do you want to stay in exclusive and luxurious hotels or eat at fancy restaurants full of stiffs? You'll feel much more relaxed, comfortable and laid back in something more local, simple and down to earth.”

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• “The bloody process of Christianisation. The violence and bloodshed of the Christians has nothing at all to do with the message of the historical figure of Jesus Christ, but you can't say that to them.”

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• “Is it not incredible how we can feel guilty when we do nothing? Progress, productivity, consumption, growth, development, ambition, success have been so drummed into us since we were little children that even when we do a great and wonderful service to all of the insects, wildlife, plants and Mother Earth by doing nothing, we can still feel really guilty.”

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• “Time to figure out things by myself. This I consider to be a richness far greater than the quest for money.”

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• “Please be patient while energies from the spiritual world emerge into my brainwashed western psyche.”

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• “I am going to die, but today the sun shines in the countryside. A cat stretches its legs and goes back to sleep. The sound of birds sing their freedom. There is no pretense.”

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• “Have you been normalized?”

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• “The most powerful people in the world are now addicted to using Twitter.”

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• “Technology, like the people you sleep with, can either help you grow or bring you down. Choose wisely.”

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• “In a permanent state of rebellion, she found freedom in the cracks.”

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• “Break all the conditioned stereotypes that were shoved down your neck since you were a little baby. Defy all the categories and boxes that people put you in. Break your daily habits. Ask a woman to buy you a drink.”

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• “If you wait to cross the road when the light is red, and there is not a vehicle in sight, you may need to see a therapist.”

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• “You don't become the prime minister or president today because you are a true leader. You are given the number one spot because you are great at deceiving the masses and willing to suck the cocks of the super rich.”

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• “Butterflies don't need governments.”

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• “They pursue money and the power that this brings over others, at the expense of their own self-realization. Take away their money power and they are nothing.​

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• “Self-examination? I dare you! All fascists are cowards.”

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• “Please support my petition. No more fuckwits in the government.”

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• “Becoming an earth punk was difficult because it involved a continual risking of failure in the eyes of the adult world.”​

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• “Fuck the standards by which a suppressed artist judges art.”

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• “An earth punk will do anything to derail the machinery that is taking us and everything else towards extinction.”

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• “Newspapers. All the news feels terrible and bad, but all the adverts make you feel really good. Hmmmm….”

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• “As soon you become an ideologically based pack animal your concerns become narrowed to within your mob and you lose perspective.”

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• “Should I review my website analytics today or go outside and play?”

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• “Oh, I'm sorry, I don't seem to fit into your prevailing death model.”

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• “People blinded by the light. Idol worshipers who fight.”

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• “There is a little moment, a gap year perhaps, were you are able to change the trajectory of your life, but if this is missed it is often only a crisis that shakes you out of the machine.”

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• “The most unselfish people appear to be selfish. They look after themselves mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually and bring far greater benefits to others and the wider community.”

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• “Anarchy has been so perverted in the public consciousness that people now associate it with chaos and disorder. Yet there is no greater chaos and disorder than that perpetrated by those who desire to be in control.”

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• “Burn all your school books and certificates. You don't need any of this bullshit.”

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• “There is nothing more simple, beautiful and liberating than cats and dogs, cuddling, playing, sleeping, meditating, eating, pooing and fucking. They are our teachers.”

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• “The English gentleman. A history littered with exploitation, conflict and war.”

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• “Earth punks never need to compare or compete with another because earth punks act from their heart, not their mind.”​

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• “To impregnate or not to impregnate? That is the biggest question.”

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• “Eat far too much, pay, love your smart phone.”

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• “One day all those people in the world who slave away just to pay their rent and get their next meal will have the bright idea of all coming together to take back all the money, resources and land that was stolen from them by the rich thieving bastards of capitalism.”

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• “Bring back the bohemians, hippies and punks. Human automatons are killing us!”

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• “Without the status and safety of a job, I could actually really start to live again.”

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• “The greatest threat to the Establishment is people listening to their hearts, boycotting the system and reorganising themselves into urban and rural farming communities.”

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• “People go to India and blind themselves. America to get lost.

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• “Upon completing my architecture training I came to the conclusion that the greatest roof in the world is the stars, the greatest bathroom a waterfall and that there are no great walls.”

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• “Many people are so busy trying to solve the problems of the world today that they never think of stopping.”

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• “I have decided to take a gap life.”

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• “How will people ever give up smoking without changing the government that they live under?”

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• “I love the silence between the Facebook posts.”

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• “Suddenly the machine stopped and everybody lived happily ever after.”

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• “Today, people spend more time with pixels than their family, friends and partners.”

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• “School is government for the children. If we want to change or abolish the government we have to change or abolish the school.”

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• “Terrorists still at large, in the White House.”

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• “Who the fuck is Gregory and why are we still using his calendar?”

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• “Alarm clocks and curriculum vitae's can rightly be considered as weapons of mass destruction.”

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• “There are so many people acting in pornographic films today that one day I am going to see my parents.”

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• “These days, all my friends seem to be children, hobos, cats, dogs and the elderly. Nobody else has enough time to just hangout and be.”

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• “Just look at all those very important people in the world fucking up the planet.”

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• “It must be made illegal. When the whole world is stoned there will be no more wars.”

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• “Wow, that guy has some really great apps.”

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• “Sometimes I think about letting my sperm spray everywhere to make children, but then I get concerned that they may not have any clean water to drink or that they might start eating chicken McNuggets. So I put a condom on.”

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• “All politicians are now requested to keep their mouths firmly shut and learn to use their fucking hands.”

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• “One day, far, far, far, into the future, human beings will divorce their smart phones and fuck under the stars, again.”

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• “Puppet shows, storytelling, theatre, music, dancing in the streets, but everyone is inside, watching the fucking television.”

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• “In the USA, anybody caught carrying a gun should be sent to Tree Planting School for three months. Imagine the results.”

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• “These days, with people having so many friends, I'm hanging out somewhere at the bottom of a Facebook newsfeed.”

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• “If we did not have a high unemployment rate, people would not do any of the shitty jobs.”

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• “It is time to put a cap on how much money, resources or land any one individual or family can accumulate for themselves, with anything beyond this cap to be considered as robbery and theft. Which it is.”

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• “I like watching animals walk under fences and birds fly over walls.”

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• “Every morning the machine resumes its destruction all over the world. Work, shop, work, shop, work, shop, work, shop, faster faster faster faster faster FASTER!”

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• “I am just not interested in buying American crap made in China anymore.”

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• “When you tell people that you are unable to support capitalism because it results in universal genocide and ecocide, people accuse you of being a communist. That is the only defense people seem to have.”

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• “People are put into lunatic asylums for maladjusted behavior that has a minimum effect on other people. Meanwhile, so called adjusted politicians are allowed to wage war killing and maiming thousands or millions of people.”

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• “When I look up at the night sky and see a shooting star I realise how pathetic self help gurus are.”

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• “Facebook Status Update: Played with my willy at 3:14pm today, 12,374 more species became extinct.”

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• “I survived India for so many years without becoming a follower by imagining all the gurus taking a great big shit every morning. Jolly good chaps, but I don't need to idolise and worship them.”

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• “If people could realise their own dreams, instead of watching other people realise their dreams on the television, there would not be half as many mad people in the world.”

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• “Every day is a miracle and we stupid humans turn it into work.”

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• “After watching some propaganda on the television people buy chemicals to put on their kitchen surfaces and think that it is now cleaner.”

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• “Everything is moving, just like a river. It's just that some people behave more like rocks. This just makes the river flow that much more interestingly.”

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• “People need to be brainwashed with propaganda to buy cars in the cities because who the fuck wants to be stuck in a traffic jam?”

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• “Breastfeeding in public needs to be considered normal again and I recommend the general exposure of all nipples for increasing the Global Happiness Index.”

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• “I am tired of all the hypocrisy. It is time to start sowing marijuana seeds along the edge of all state high ways and high schools.”

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• “Tying a piece of cloth around your neck is a revelation of the suicidal professions.”

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• “North American films with the capitalist vision of life are so pervasive in the world today that it is hard for the majority of people to imagine that it is possible to die in any other way.”

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• “I have that strange feeling that the rise of fascism increases in proportion to the demise of the holy church of capitalism.”

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• “With the almost universal extermination of the earth's biodiversity; money, shopping and status all seem like very temporary occupations to me. Better to just sit in a hammock and smoke a joint.”

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• “An extremely lazy human could quite possibly be the greenest and most effective environmentally friendly prodigy we have.”

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• “When I was a kid we played outside and took over the streets, but now the streets are dominated by machines and the kids stay indoors in front of other machines.”

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• “In places were busking in the streets is now banned you can now hear commercial music playing on loudspeakers. Apparently it helps everyone move into automatic shopping mode.”

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• “In Finland, with the greatest education system in the world, the nations main newspaper still sells cars and other consumer junk on its front page.”

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• “Sometimes I have this dark and disturbing vision of a planet consumed with the over population of the human species. Like we are living in some sort of end of days, before the final, unequivocal, extinction of the human species. There are simply too many of us.”

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• “Fuck security and possessions. I seek adventure.”

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• “Government. The midwife of terrorism.”

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• “Are you always busy and distracted? Do you feel the need to be constantly productive and on top form? Do you put your career first at the expense your personal health, family and community? Do you feel envy and jealousy at the financial and material acquisitions of your peers? Do feel that you are nothing more than a commodity, to be bought and sold? You maybe suffering from capitalism.”

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• “Buy God get another one free.”

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• “Everywhere God is all around us, inside and out. But not the God of names, the God children know before they're trained to doubt.”

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• “The disease of affluence in the overdeveloped world is now epidemic.”

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• “The first question to ask your new, potential, smoke chaining doctor is; are you aware that some of the same corporations that make the pharmaceuticals, also make the poisons in our food?“

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• “Love everything that happens, as a dream, everything passes really fucking quickly.”

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• “Nature, land and our bodies. These are the real temples, the true religion.”

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• “It is in performing wage labour that most humans waste away most of their waking hours and it is this which makes them miserable, giving birth to a whole industry of self help gurus and guidebooks.”

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• “I'm a nomad not a tourist.”

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• “Some people care more about machines than they do about people.”

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• “Putting art back into the service of life.”

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• “Do not think about the money, just do what you love. There is magic in the air if you are happy with enough.”

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• “Be unproductive. Know that your unproductivity is a boon for nature. Paint, write, dance, sleep. Smoke marijuana.”

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• “Never forget that for all the bravado and machoism that a president or prime minister of any age can show; there is this little, needy, insecure boy on the inside seeking more attention, more love and more connection.”

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• “Do not vote. Abstain from conventional politics. Do not give your power away. Seek connections with people who do the same.”

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• “There is nowhere to go, nothing to be done. The best of the day is a little bit of fun.”

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• “Your so called leaders are in chains. Follow them and you will never be free.”

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• “The fences and walls we build for ourselves.”

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• “Greed leads to the hoarding of armaments. Just look at the United States.”

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• “We destroy our own lives just as much as we destroy the life around us. When we honor the inside we will honor the outside. But as long as politicians, priests and salesmen continue to plunder peoples hearts and minds we will remain a culture in crisis, a culture in chains.”

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• “There is one thing that the rich cannot buy, can never buy, and that is community, because in its essence, community is sharing.”

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• “Create communities, connect communities.”

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• “The incessant noise of trash culture. The real tragedy of today is the sheer number of people who have lost contact with their inner spirit and are seduced and brainwashed by the billion dollar propaganda machine of consumer advertising and electoral politics. All while the water is being poisoned and the insects, wildlife and plants fast disappear.”​

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• “Success? Success is peace of mind in a world gone nuts.”