A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Trend is not destiny.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.