Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.