The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.