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A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

If one has to say, in an argument, "I am intelligent! I do know things!" then one might as well stop arguing.

We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were...

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by...

...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to...

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.- pg. 41

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.

Albert Einstein wrote, 'A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from...

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.""Sacked! A miscarriage of justice. You ought to be...

Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

{T}he most difficult part of the fight is not taking aim at the enemy, but rejecting his definition of you.

Would you like to see your country lose?' Major Major asked. 'We won't lose. We've got more men, more money and more material. There are ten million men in uniform who could replace me. Some people...

And then," continued the clerk, "they send those students out at the end of their course and say, 'Go off and use those big words and long sentences to get all the good, high-paying jobs. And once...

Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw- we need them both.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their...

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you...

The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels the...

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

This utopian notion of a sexuality freed from heterosexual constructs, a sexuality beyond sex, failed to acknowledge the ways in which power relations continue to construct sexuality for women even...

Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Through the lavender gloom clouding the entrance of the operations tent, Yossarian glimpsed Chief White Halfoat, diligently embezzling whiskey rations, forging the signatures of nondrinkers and...

And further, the thing put to rest-whether it be a loved one, a dream, or a false way of seeing-becomes the fertilizer for the life about to form. As the well-used thing joins with the earth, the old...

At other times I sit and wait. If nothing comes, I've discovered that it's better just to write something – anything. You can always tear up the piece of paper and throw it away. But if you don't...

Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look.

I purse my lips in aggravation. Of all the places to spend the summer, my parents have chosen here. My mother, the socialite, has chosen to spend her summer a million miles away from the designer...

quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.