The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

I’m for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

,Será justo abandonar a la patria en estos momentos solemnes en que va a necesitar de toda la abnegación de sus hijos los humildes para que la salven, para que no la dejen caer de...

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time...

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence...

Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all...

Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess over their narrative of history, you couldn’t say their didn’t shore it up with footnotes and research.

I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

Kudzu is going to destroy something called Aevum.

A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Yes here’s to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn’t want to pay taxes…