“I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.”
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“We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.”
“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
“News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.”
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
“I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.”
“I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.”
“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.”
“So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”
“There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.”
“A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
“Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”
“Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.”
“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?”
“Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.”