Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that you will never talk a person out of such a belief, even if it is something as remarkable as the notion that there is a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft ("GOD") who will spend all eternity torturing people who do not believe in his religion.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

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

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.