Everything – Page 100 – A book of aphorisms
Mar 132020
 

In matters of opinion, the choices are anodyne or wrong; punditry is the art of combining them.

Mar 092020
 

Deviants and criminals, given the chance, will dwell endlessly on their own deviance and criminality. Repression at least obliges them to change the subject.

Mar 062020
 

To tyrannize over a people it is necessary to humiliate them, and nothing is more humiliating than declaring normal acts heinous crimes.

Mar 052020
 

A nation that regards speech as the fundamental liberty is a nation unable to keep its mouth shut.

Mar 042020
 

The loss of America’s appetite for full-on war has whetted it for petty military adventure.