In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.