The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.

Human rights don't trickle down.

Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least

Where there is society, there is no need for charity.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.

Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.

I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest...it's about who came, and never left your side.