One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability - whether they are easily measured or not.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.