We are told that the meek shall inherit the earth. It follows that the meek are chosen of God. I shall try to be meek, not because I want the earth - you can keep it, after the way you've fucked it ar...
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
There are two kinds of fools. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.
The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in his view, attempting to undermine the American Constitution by imposing a state religi...
Eight or nine men were present
It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight thei...
In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?
I like you very much as a person, he said […] I think I’m going to like you just as much as a woman.I hope so, she answered with equal formality. We may have to go a lot of places together.
They sought security by piling up more and more irrelevant weapons.
It’s the beginning of wisdom when you admit you’ve gone astray.
It was also not difficult to forecast that no matter how well endowed they were with material resources those countries where the Industrial Revolution arrived late would change proportionately more s...
I always wondered what democracy might smell like.
And how do men call you? I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.
And that person might be Nickie Haflinger!
There are two kinds of fool. One says, ‘This is old, and therefore good.’ And one says, ‘This is new, and therefore better.
Out of all the calls taken, nearly half—I think they say forty-five percent—are from people who are afraid someone else knows data that they don’t and is gaining an unfair advantage by it. For all the...
How right you are. She shivered. Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare t...
Terrible diarrhea, Doctor, and I feel so weak! Take these pills and come back in three days if you're not better. Terrible diarrhea... Take these pills... Terrible... Take... Doctor, I know it's Sunda...
Our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preservin...
True, you’re not a slave. You’re worse off than that by a long, long way. You’re a predatory beast shut up in a cage of which the bars aren’t fixed, solid objects you can gnaw at or in despair batter...