Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

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.

-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.

Balance is of the essence, ' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.