Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits’ end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.

It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

There was the emptiness of space I was afraid to fall into, but the only real fear I’d ever actually had was to dive into the emptiness inside of myself.

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.