If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Life is a great adventure.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.