"Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates."

"Without mass testing, tracing, and isolating, you cannot contain. So everything else — the ban on mass gatherings, the school closures, the lockdown measures — all of it, of course, too late — amount …"

"This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it."

"I now realized the imprudence of landing without a large body of marines; and yet this seemed to me, after all, the fittest way for Mr. Lincoln to come among the people he had redeemed from bondage. W…"

"Does anyone not have any problems with taking ideas seriously? I think I'm in this category because ideas like cryonics, the Singularity, , and Tegmark's mathematical universe were all immediately obv…"