One Of The Many Pleasures Of Old

What Is Called Western Civilization Is In An Advanced State Of Decomposition, And Another Dark Ages Will Soon Be Upon Us, If, Indeed, It Has Not Already Begun. With The Media, Especially Television, Governing All Our Lives, As They Indubitably Do, It Is Easily Imaginable That This Might Happen Without Our Noticing...by Accustoming Us To The Gradual Deterioration Of Our Values.

Tranquilizers To Overcome Angst, Pep Pills To Wake Us Up, Life Pills To Ensure Blissful Sterility. I Will Lift Up My Ears Unto The Pills Whence Cometh My Help.

People Do Not Believe Lies Because They Have To, But Because They Want To.

I Think That Once You've Produced A Conformist, A Totally Conformist Society, A Society In Which There Were No Critics, That Would In Fact Be An Exact Equivalent Of The Totalitarian Societies Against Which We Are Supposed To Be Fighting In A Cold War.

This Horror Of Pain Is A Rather Low Instinct And... If I Think Of Human Beings I've Known And Of My Own Life, Such As It Is, I Can't Recall Any Case Of Pain Which Didn't, On The Whole, Enrich Life.