All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.