Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.

A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.

I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!