We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.