Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

A united front announcing a split.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.