Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

He got a lovely pair of trainers given off his mum for Christmas, best pair he ever had, but it was the nylon laces that he couldn’t take his eyes off. They found him hanging in his cell!

This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.