"Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once."
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"Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy."
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"...reality is always plural and mutable."
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"The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental."
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"And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it."
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"We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear."
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"Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules."
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"I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it…."
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"Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons"
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"The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it."
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"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave."
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"Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation."
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"The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles."
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"The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
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"Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction"
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"The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics)."
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"Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue."
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"People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots."
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"Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot."
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"If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day."
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