By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.