Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens 1995 1996 1997 1998 Aid Death Famine Kim Il Sung Kim Jong Il North Korea North Korean Famine Propaganda

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

~ Peter J. Carroll

Peter J. Carroll 1995 Betrayal Conspiracy Politics

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method, should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

~ Peter J. Carroll

Peter J. Carroll 1995 Chaocracy Electoral Politics Governance Government Politics

Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.

~ Peter J. Carroll

Peter J. Carroll 1995 Bullshit Causality Conspiracy Theory History Prediction