I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.