“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”

“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”

“They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.”

“trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge”

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”

“More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”