Status Updates From Conversations with René Gir...

"A society which doesn't burn witches is the exception."

"A society which doesn't burn witches is the exception. In order to invent science, in my view, you have to stop burning witches first."

" . . . poor people are oppressed; the indignant are persecuted; also the sick, the crippled, and the plague-ridden, and so forth, but great leaders are too . . . In a way the great leader is a the center, but the center is somewhat like the eye of a cyclone. It is a quiet center, and when trouble enters, the system tends to collapse and reform around a victim."