The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

Communication can only take place among equals.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

[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.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.