Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

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.

Had we but world enough, and time...

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

There are people who think everything is a conspiracy and I think they're crazy.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

Now, the people of Florida can't stand him [Marci Rubio]. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'