The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.