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

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.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough.

I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature.

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

Just like the bright sun, I am a radiant being. Others feel safe and warm in my presence.