It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.