Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
I look into my own black heart.
In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
Most writers write books that they wouldn’t read. I ought to know; I’ve done it myself.
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
Once people get hung up on theology, they’ve lost sanity forever.
Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we’re less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.
Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major.
It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you’ve been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.
God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.
I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.
We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.