'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible. - Thomas Sowell

Any serious consideration of the world as it is around us today must tell us that maintaining common decency, much less peace and harmony, among living contemporaries is a major challenge, both among nations and within nations. To admit that we can do nothing about what happened among the dead is not to give up the struggle for a better world, but to concentrate our efforts where they have at least some hope of making things better for the living.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

We will do almost anything for our visions, except think about them. The purpose of this book is to think about them.