Tell me which nation in the world believes they live under a truthfully democratic regime, and I’ll point you a people deluded.

Would it not be much easier to spend the hundreds of lives and billions of dollars that today are spent on securing petroleum into securing an alternative form of fuel to make a nation independent? Couldn’t that sum be spent in buying peace at a bargain rate?

On the transparency of preconceptions:

I once interrupted an acquaintance that was going on and on about the “ignorance of religions and the ignorant who follow them” to tell him I’m religious, and that person made a very surprised look and posed: “but you’re intelligent.”