“The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.”

“Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.”

“Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.”

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”