Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.