"There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves."

“Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.”

Source : "World Chefs: Geoffrey Zakarian Dishes on Must-have Ingredients in New Book". Interview with Richard Leong, www.reuters.com. November 18, 2014.

“Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.”

“The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.”

“There is more inside you than you dare think.”

“I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.”

“And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.”

“Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.154

“We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.”