philosophy

"When the question of the new coinage came up we looked into the law and found there was no warrant therein for putting 'In God We Trust' on the coins. As the custom, although without legal warrant, ha…"

"Fascist organizations were being generously financed by big business in various parts of the Country"

"When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one."

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark c…"

"... a lion wants to eat an antelope's body, but the antelope has very different plans for its body. This is not normally regarded as competition for a resource, but logically it is hard to see why not…"

"This new model of development would be based clearly on the goal of sustainable human well-being. It would use measures of progress that clearly acknowledge this goal. It would acknowledge the importa…"

"Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured t…"

"Theological myths suit philosophers, physical and psychic suit poets, mixed suit religious initiations, since every initiation aims at uniting us with the world and the Gods."

"“The agnostic position, the largest historic view of philosophy would say, is an unwarrantable arrest of the philosophic movement of reason; and its unjustifiable character appears in the fact, which …"

"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."

"Unlike a small village, the city speaks loud and clear of history, of being the terminus of a long, cumulative process."

"A cat being cured of hairballs through a television ministry. Place your right paw on the screen."

"White people are being denied the ability to organize in political organizations the way other groups do, free of harassment, to face the issues important to us."

"The reasons why I do things are difficult for me to understand and difficult for me to explain."

"Thanks to a century and a half of truly bizarre Supreme Court decisions ... today's new corporate "person" is... endowed with many of the rights and protections of human beings. The modern corporation…"

"If the only available genes produce rather large changes, disadvantageous one at a time, then it seems to me probable that evolution will not occur in a random mating population. In a self-fertilised …"

"Why would a committee award such a prestigious prize right on the heels of his documentary being proven inaccurate and prone to exaggerations?"

"Dialogue never ends not for lack of time or opportunity but for essential reasons."

"As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin’s criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows."

"People are often being reactive instead of being proactive in reducing dangerous threats."