The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.

Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.

Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his message was "hope and change." People wanted change, for good reasons, and they wanted hope. Disillusioned with what took place, they turned to someone else who was offering hope and change. When they're disillusioned with that, it depends on what activists and others do.

The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all