To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. - Isaac Asimov
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough? - Isaac Asimov
I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts. - Isaac Asimov
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable. - Isaac Asimov
Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing. - Robin Williams
I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Please do not clone me, because after a while your clone is not as bright as you are. - Robin Williams
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years. - George Orwell
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except the steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship. - George Orwell
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. - George Orwell
Looking at the whole world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. - George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. - George Orwell
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. - George Orwell
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