There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
There’s great peace in surrendering to principles.
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
We can only avoid the traps we can see.
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.
I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn’t listen.
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.