Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

In this game you only lose when you fight back

Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.