I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. – E. O. Wilson

But we dont have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. – Peter L. Berger