What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.