Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.