Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Society is at odds with itself.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.