Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

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.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.