“Every society in human history that has ever given itself over to government by intellectuals has lived to regret it. Ours will be no different.”
“The history of ideas since 1789 is an endless record of mass murder in the name of the people.”
“The relative peace of the last sixty years has been achieved only at the price of creating a university system which is an established church in all but name, and which suppresses any thought it finds even remotely disturbing.”
“The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.”
“When you create a category called "religion" which lumps together all the delusional traditions that people who are not like you have inherited unquestioned from their intellectual ancestors, you are making it harder, not easier, to question your own assumptions.”
“Simplicity is the cure for violence. For example, if we postulate an imaginary oracle that could predict the outcome of any battle, we could eliminate war. The predicted loser would have no incentive but to concede to the demands of the predicted winner.”