He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.