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.

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.

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.

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

Milk for infant as liquor for adult.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.