Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

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.

This is mine, " he growled, fangs bared. "You are mine."Bria met him stare for stare. "Prove it.

I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Getting that first knockout against Joe Riggs [in 2006] meant a lot to me then and still does today.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.