The most important political development of the modern era is the rise of the modern state.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it’s about having so little that you can’t even afford to make the right decisions.

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

我不喜欢被指挥。