Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important.

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.