A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry