Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

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.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.