If I wanna be president, I probably can.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is. . . and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.