The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.