Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?