Quotes – Page 6

The way things are going nowadays, you'll be considered a bloody treasure if you don't turn out to be a child molester or a public drunk.

Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.

Yes that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unplesant instead of learning to put up with it.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Call it a fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with maschinery and medicine and happiness.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Too good - good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that musn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

A society of Alphas couldn't fail to be unstable and miserable.

Stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability.

I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

What fun it would be - if one didn't have to think about happiness

Pierced by every word that was spoken, the tight balloon of happy selfconfidence was leaking from a thousand wounds.