Challenging Establishment

"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet."

Never attack someone personally when challenging their established ideals. It will only undermine your efforts to expose your point of view.

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"We are the power in everyone. We are the dance of the moon and the sun. We are the hope that will never hide. We are the turning of the tide!"

Anatol Rapoport, after years of considering the logical conundrum called the 'prisoner's dilemma,' established that the best game theoretical strategy in iterated encounters was the simplest, 'tit-for-tat:' Cooperate in the beginning and then do whatever the other player had done in the previous round.

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont distinguished between "knowledge (understood, roughly, as justified true belief) and mere belief," and added that, if one does not "take into account empirical aspects, then scientific discourse indeed becomes nothing more than a 'myth' or 'narration'".

"they've got the guns but we've got the numbers"