Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Whoever worries only wears himself out.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.