In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!
In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google. )
If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.