“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
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“Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.”
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
“The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.”
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.”
“I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!”
“You should have seen the look on your skull.”
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
“Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.”
“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.”
“I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.”
“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
“Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.”
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”
“Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'”
“Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.”
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”