“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
—Abraham Lincoln

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
—Aldous Huxley

“The unspectacular things are the important things.”
—Dieter Rams

“There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.”
—Ray Bradbury

“You are in the stream of life, whether you like it or not.”
—Lawrence Weiner

“The really cool thing about this idea is that nobody has done anything quite like this before.”
—Dennis Hopper

“Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is the degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.”

“I attend the greatest of all churches. I put a capital N on Nature and call it my church.”

—Frank Lloyd Wright

“We cannot have a cliche.”
—Alfred Hitchcock

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“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”
—Salvador Dali

“Work is an expression of life.”
—Orson Welles