Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.