Occupation: Writer Birth: May 20, 1928
No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain..
Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness..
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us..
What we do not understand, we cannot control..
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly..
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of ….
We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive..
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism..
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indiffere….
My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success..
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, manag….
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from Cali….
The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no….
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..
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth..
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 t….
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties..
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..
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions..
One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to tak….