Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.