"Revolution is the larva of civilization."

“End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.”

“For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.”

“It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.”

“All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.”

“It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.”

“I will create value for society, rather than extract it.”

Source : John C. Bogle (2010). “Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons

“the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.200, SAGE

“I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.”