One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.