The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.
To see the farm is to leave it.
Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.
It’s not just the abuse of power that’s the problem. It’s the power to abuse.
The only freedom is freedom from illusion...
Deep connection is the antidote to madness.
The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
Anger is the immune system of the soul.
The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
You can’t reason people out of beliefs they weren’t reasoned into.
If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell – if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.