"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, beca…"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"Medical science has made such tremendous advances that there is hardly an ailment today for which there isn't some drug that will either cure it or make the patient feel better -- until he dies."

"The human race is a race of slaves, and the only way to be free is to be a master."

"As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he happens to be puritanical as well as power-loving) will do well to encourage …"