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The way things are going nowadays, you'll be considered a bloody treasure if you don't turn out to be a child molester or a public drunk.

What makes him dangerous - is the fact that no one can place him or his product.

Anyone who thinks the Church is open to new ideas is living in a dreamworld.

It's become a solid part of our cultural mythology that a profound gulf seperates East from West, "and never the twain shall meet", and this causes people to be disconcerted when I speak of East and West as single culture.

No one works harder to stay alive than the people of our culture do.

The essential fact remains that, anywhere in the world, East or West, you can walk up a stranger and say, "Let me show you how to be saved", and you'll be understood.

If you'd like to get an idea of how important stones were to prehistoric peoples, visit a modern "Stone Age" culture in New Guinea or Brazil, and you'll see that stones are about as central to their lives as glue is to ours. They use stones all the time, of course - as we use glue all the time - but calling them Stone Age people makes no better sense than calling us Glue Age people.

If you met someone branded with the letter B you knew that his sin was blasphemy

Totalitarian agriculture is based on the premise that all the food in the world belings to us, and there is no limit whatever to what we may take for ourselves and deny to all others.

Without a standing army, a king is just a windbag in fancy clothes.

Military need are the chief stimulus for technological advancement in our culture.

Crimes are what the state defines as crimes.

If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with old minds and new programs. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but a new program.

If the time isn't right for a new idea, no power on earth can make it catch on, but if the time is right, it will sweep the world like wildfire.

If people in the coming century have a new vision, then they'll do what is completely unpredictable by us.

Really smart wolves disguise themselves as friendly wolves.