"I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do."

"The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli...

"Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it."

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."