The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

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

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

People like to talk about war.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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 one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.