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"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment."
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"I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time."

"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."

"A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy."

"Why we don't feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or too many? We humans must realize it before it is too late."

"Plant life is like the canary in the cage. When it starts to die off, we know we have problems. To ignore plant die off would be like the human race committing suicide. Human extinction would surely follow."

"Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions."

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

"People decided that trees have no feelings."

"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming."
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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."


"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."


"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."


"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."


"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."


"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."


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


"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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