I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

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.

Noting the lack of crime or security in the Netherlands, the author asked a native who guarded a national landmark. He got the replay, "We all do.

The medium is the message.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Blood's not thicker than money.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

He looks at you like... like you're something to eat.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.