Werner Erhard

"The hungry have to be given the opportunity to be responsible for their own hunger...[not treated like they are victims]...but rather a kind of stand that one is equal to one's condition in life. If one is equal to the condition, if I can be responsible for my own life, then I can do something about it. If I'm the victim of life, I really can't do anything about it. So by responsibility we mean taking a stand that I am cause in the matter of my own life."

Mark Twain & Blaise Pascal

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it. -- Mark Twain

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him? -- Blaise Pascal

Clay Felker

A pervasive, highly organized system diverts us from the truth and places us in a cultural limbo where very little is real.