We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.