Doug Larson

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Don’t automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn’t considered key aspects of the issue.

… This phenomenon has its place in the world, and it’s developing. We need to monitor and analyze what’s going on thoroughly. And at some stage we will need to look at how we can take part in this process, how we can use it to avoid all sorts of restrictions in the sphere of international financial activity, among other things.

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

It was not known in 1945 that we were not only entering the nuclear age, but entering a new geological epoch, what geologists call the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity is having severe and deleterious effects on the environment in which human and other life can survive.

U.S. society doesn’t want to play the role of international policeman.

Much research, including a widely quoted Rand Corporation study of 1994, has shown that prevention and treatment are considerably more cost-effective than the coercive [drug war] measures that receive the bulk of funding. Such nonpunitive measures are also of course far more humane.

Based on our preliminary calculations, we may in the next six years spend 17 trillion roubles (Putin said billion, but meant trillion), but to achieve the goals that we have discussed, we will need an additional 8 trillion roubles. And it is clear where we are going to find them.

I believe something is very wrong with the history of our country and how we have messed up the African National Congress.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The Thirteenth Amendment formally ended slavery, but a decade later “slavery by another name” (also the title of an important study by Douglas A. Blackmon) was introduced. Black life was criminalized by overly harsh codes that targeted black people.

KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.