The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

I am not the river I am the net.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.