Perceptual claws

If crabs only walked sideways they'd never swim in the ocean.

Nourishing nature

Losing our connection with nature is like drinking Brawndo instead of water.

Claiming direction

You can't raise the bar unless you first take hold.

Degrees of perception

Our choice of ruler sets how we measure the world.

A long smile

Photons from stars have travelled trillions of kilometres across space to be welcomed by our eyes and make us smile.

Partly complete

You don't have to do the whole thing to do something.

Our small view of a big future

We know too little to say no.

What you serve

Serve the machine, be the machine.

Confined laughter

Keep drawing lines that can't be crossed by humour and soon you'll have a cage.

Illuminating politics

The best time to see the light is while sunlight shines on the truth.

Money tree

Your wealth doesn't matter. A frangipani is still a frangipani. 

Choice of chains

The most effective slavery is that which people choose.

Ideological swallows

Vagaries are an insidious spice.

Liquid reign

Make the trail inviting and horses will lead themselves to water.

Calculating control

Money and power are both variables in the control equation.

Next thought

As long as the next generations can think freely a golden future is assured.

Natural time

Humans think in terms of days. Nature ponders decades.

Sought

The search for light is eternal.

Game off

Sports is the most important unimportant human pastime.

Artfully tasty

Food is just a painting for your mouth.

Speak of another master

Actions, not words, reveal the master served.

Cooperative evil

A snake's venom is useless without the rest of the body pushing fangs into the child's crib.

Begone demon of negativity

When you live in the household of reality never invite a succubus to cross the threshold.

Only war?

War can be just but it can never be just war.

Cling wrap cow

Meat just magically appears in the supermarket.

Rebiting desired fruit

Never trust the soothing words of a viper who saw you recoil faster than expected from their first failed strike. 

Drawing out the truth

A good caricature lets us see the soul behind the face.

Voter’s worth

We know how little our politicians value us by how little it takes to bribe them against us.

Fresh Bait

"I'll only tax the rich" is a well worn hook for fingerlings.

Evil

Evil has no creativity.

Wherever we look

We look ahead. We look behind. We look up and we look down. Wherever we look there are mysteries to solve and wonders to behold.

Stopping war

War doesn't start stopping until it stops starting.

Election tails

The closer they get to elections the more fox tails they need to hang from the barbed wire. 

Up to you

Empower your self yourself.

Seeking validation

If you continually ask for permission people will keep saying no.

War’s aftertaste

Cleansing the palette with a sorbet of self righteousness doesn't wash away the taint left by a banquet of violence. 

Follow the mooney

Feed your fattest cow the most grass.

Canine shakes

Restless dogs don't guarantee an earthquake but it's the wrong time to hide in a hole.

Laying around

Beauty is made from what's available. 

Sour purge

When politics sour worms turn and those in line cheer the purges of those ahead.

Crafty consequences

The population of foxes tends to triple when bounties are paid for tails.

Bitten by the past

Sometimes sheepdogs act like they're descended from wolves.

Not odd

The house is never made to shelter the punter.

The balloon of justice

The citizenry used to have a powerful pin but pages of legislation papier-mâchéd with political spittle onto the justice balloon have made it almost impervious to our will.

The bountiful cherry tree

When you find a slightly rotten cherry in your basket don't chop down the whole tree in anger.

Loony Democracy

Democracy - your "common sense" candidates are someone else's loonies and vice versa. You're both right and you're both wrong. 

When to leave

When the "illuminated" crowd is exhorting you to get in ... get out.

Political clergy

Power and control is agnostic about the Mass that makes them high priests. 

The price of doing

Words are easily spent but it's actions that cost.

Inside the walls

Regicide works best when courtiers offer to deliver the poison.

Elite socialism

The "means of production" have nothing to do with average values.

Being put there

You don't ride on shoulders unless the crowd lifts you.

On the canvas

You have to make a statement otherwise all you've painted is a buttock.

Corroding regulators

The problem with regulators is they can become biased and corrupt over time while free markets are always impartial.

Soul call

I don't like all bird calls but it's good for my soul that all birds call.

We are all choosers

Judging another human's freedom to choose how they use a common commodity, money, comes across as dehumanising superiority.

We are

Humans gonna human.

Painful words

When actions and pain are required we find out the real truth behind grandly spoken words.

Between their ears

If we don't listen to other people's thoughts we will only think what is trapped between the palms either side of our shaking head.

Rising rewards

Sometimes the reward for going up a hill is that you get to come back down again.

Shadows of lightl

History has a dark corner reserved for people who abdicate personal responsibility for embracing truth. 

Cracking down

Powers to punish and censor "dissent" always look good when your team is cracking the whip.

Boi that’s accurate

Furry mirrors often let us see more than a reflection can. 

Government waste

If you keep the septic tank stirred you can't see what's in the bottom.

Outward, not back and forth

You can't explore beyond the bounds of the park until you get off the see-saw.

Detecting movement

The risk with waiting to see which way the wind blows is by the time your finger is in the air your arse is the only thing pointing in the right direction. 

Ageless laughter

You're never too old to laugh like a child. 

The maturation of socialism

The difference between socialism and authoritarianism is about one to four generations. 

The free State

When The State is a prison then everyone can be told they are free.

Being wrong well

What a rubbish life it would be if I could never be wrong or learn from someone better than me. 

The price of principle

When you have to pay deeply for your principles only the true of heart take out loans against their integrity.

Root causes

You can throw a freshly unwrapped urinal cake into the trough but the same bastards will still piss all over it.