What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence...

The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas the exterminator couldn’t kill and rats that scrabbled in the walls and mice...

It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, ” This is new, and therefore better.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don’t know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

I’m myself, not a label.

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.

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don’t only have to rely on that. In a sense we’ve made ourselves into experimental animals. There are too many...

Right! Right! ‘Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it’s dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune out of selling us gadgets to purify it again. Why can’t they be...

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos…...

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...