Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.

We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

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.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

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

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

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.