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

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

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.

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.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

I had a dream that I was perfect…I woke up and was still perfect. Aw.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

Now I can wear high heels again.