Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

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.

It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that.

The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now.

Don't let them tell us stories.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

You have to foul me to stop me, period.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?