Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

The command to be free is a double bind

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends?