Apathy's a problem but who cares?

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure white, of light and truth.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

I love your duck with all its ducky goodness!

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.