Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

Big Brother is watching you.

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.