💬 Quotes

"It is true, that the overwhelming majority of this people are of the gentler sex; for the males are born in a much smaller proportion, a circumstance which I have been told is common to all the superior races in this subterranean world."

"It is not then by the force of arms that the Vril-ya claim their dominion, but by the agency of that All-containing fluid which they call Vril; combining the most potent elements of utility and destruction."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

"Machinery is accomplishing what toil was intended to accomplish so long ago. It is taking off the burdens of men and giving them a chance at life."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

"I call an animal, a species, a individual corrupt when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers, what is detrimental to it."

"What is the sign of freedom? To no longer be ashamed of oneself."

"Christianity is called the religion of pity. Pity thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection."

"God is a word that designates all that is crooked, all that is to be mistrusted, all that is an enemy of life."

"The 'true world' and the 'Apparent world'—in plain terms: the mendacious world and the reality."

"A strong and well-turned-out human being digests his experiences... he is not easily poisoned."

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself."

"Muzak's objective is to reduce thinking, to discourage and prevent the quick formation of habits that lead to awareness and to negate whatever is culturally or intellectually disturbing."

"If you're going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate technique is indispensable, but more than that is required if the work is to be good. It is an attitude, as much as anything else."

"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test."

"Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. But that's self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they have more quality."

"To uncreate, to pull down, to make unnecessary and to replace with something remembered instead of something present, this is the job of a gumption trap."