Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man each having the right to seek his own happiness a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.