Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.