No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
The only consistent people are the dead
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.
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.
If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).