The scientists pushing Global Warming are all in it for climate study grants. Seriously, you never realized you can judo-kill that with just four wor… - David Brin

Survivalists. Gordon felt a wave of revulsion.

There’s a reason why kings built large palaces, sat on thrones and wore rubies all over. There’s a whole social need for that, not to oppress the masses, but to impress the masses and make them proud and allow them to feel good about their culture, their government and their ruler so that they are left feeling that a ruler has the right to rule over them, so that they feel good rather than disgusted about being ruled. — George Lucas, New York Times, 1999

I had to admit, standing there, that sometimes you just gotta admire the passion of the truly insane — a passion that bulls right past all sense or reason.