The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

The object of powder is powder.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.