The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

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.

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

and today, your bonesgathered your skinand said'Come on, let's do it again

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.