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.

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.

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.

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.

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

Great moments await around every corner.