“Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.”

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”

“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”

“We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live it. It allows you to concentrate your attention on the real work, which means everything that is done to stay alive, to make things, or satisfy one's curiosity, or play. That is utopia.”

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”