The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.