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

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

We have paid the police for information in the past.