War grows out of ordinary human nature.
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
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.
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight
Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7. 14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.