Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.