Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.
Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.
America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.
Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.
Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.
Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.
Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.
First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.