The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

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.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past

I grew up on radio, not TV.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.