Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.