Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Theology is unnecessary.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

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 end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I think America has always been polarized.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

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.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.