We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.

Human rights don't trickle down.

Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least

Where there is society, there is no need for charity.

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.

Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.