It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

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.

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.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.