“And I am a weapon of massive consumption. And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.”— Augusten Burroughs
“The nearer the time of a catastrophe, the more people are engaged in trivialities.”— Immanuel Velikovsky
“The human animal is a territorial animal. His territorial defense is sleeping ownership and this is a breeding territory.”— Desmond Morris
“A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.”— Albert Bandura
“The way to think about the economy is to think about it as a series of incentives.”— Edward Lazear
“When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs.”— Abraham Maslow