-- Why is it that, when offered the choice between Wisdom and War, mankind never chooses Wisdom?

-- Your use of force may cause me to fear you. Do not mistake my fear for respect; the two share no kinship.

-- I do not drink to forget the past so much as I drink to forget the future.

-- People cling to their brainwashing with as much passion as they reject the idea of having been brain-washed.

-- People want to be told what they should believe in; they do not want to work at seeking it. In this respect religion always seems to meet their needs better than science.

-- We have been so busy boasting of our “Freedom”, that we forgot to keep watch on those among us who have taken it away.

-- The problem of poverty will be solved the instant someone figures out how to make a profit from doing so.

-- I’m always amazed at those people who look “inside themselves” for answers to their problems; heck, if the answers were inside you, you’d have no problems!

--  It serves no purpose to admonish someone to “think again” if they’ve never had a first thought.

-- It is good for us to think a lot of ourselves but bad for us to think of ourselves a lot.

-- Wherever you find hunger in a society, there too will you find greed; for greed is but hunger carried to an extreme.”

-- When atrocities become legal, legality becomes an atrocity.