Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)