The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter

Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.