Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

Our past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies.

When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.