Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.
World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.
The citizen’s job is to be rude – to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child’s paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created.
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
Freedom – an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.