Iconoclastical

"It felt like a passport back to america for people who'd become so estranged from their own country, that they felt like foreigners even when they were in it" (unknown on The Band)

"YEAH! LET'S ALL BE MILLIONAIRES! C'MON EVERYONE, WORK HARDER!" Oh... but hang on.... then we'd all be... equal.  Does that mean capitalism is really... communism?

Do not let the reason you can't decide what to do, be the reason you do nothing.

It strikes me that an awful lot of human endeavour is the struggle to understand a reality that is not ours to understand. I don't mean that we should give up, but to recognise that its somewhat arrogant to think we can know the immense chaos the world presents. When we create a piece of art, we try to model the world, to find an inner truth; is this not the same for, say, scientific research? All we ever have is tiny shards of insight, floating in a sea of knowledge as big as the universe itself.

Philanthropic millionaires seem ignorant of the fact that their extreme wealth is a bigger problem than the ones they are trying to solve.

Religion is the hardest thing for me to exercise non-judgement about. I will continue to ponder why this is.

The act of violence comes in buying the meat, not eating it.

There will always be people that feel they deserve to be at the top of the economic food chain, and it's society's job to stop them getting there.