Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!