Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ...
Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ... And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
The pursuit of happiness is the most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue it, you'll never find it.
What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have been committed in the name of rebellion.