Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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