As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!