Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

History is the same story with different costumes.

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.