Neal Stephenson Quote

The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attrac...

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it...

I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empire...

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.