We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.