Gregg Easterbrook

“Torture is coercive, not persuasive.”

“Panic is not a policy.”

“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely a romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public is allowed into the room.”

“Call it the 'progress paradox': life gets better while people feel worse.”

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

“In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have legal rights to hang around and bother us.”

“Whatever the intellectual shortcomings of the environmental movement, its heart is in the right place.”

“The history of the creative process is a history of resistance to convention.”

“If the world is to be saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.”

“Americans hold that every human being has a right to be treated with a certain minimum of dignity, regardless of his background.”

“In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and you're talented, you can be anything.”

“The more we learn about the cosmos, the more meaningless it seems.”