Everything – Page 104 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 212020
 

The neuroses of the village can now be disseminated with the speed and efficiency of an advanced civilization.

Jan 172020
 

It is natural, if you believe that speech is violence, to believe that violence is speech.

Jan 162020
 

Anti-Semitism is marvelously economical; you can hate communism, globalism, the academy, television, international finance, journalism, and Hollywood, all at the same time.

Jan 152020
 

Only moderns, criminals, and small children regard a desire for something as a sign that they ought to have it.

Jan 142020
 

Occam’s Razor accounts not for the world’s simplicity, but for our own.

Jan 132020
 

The best defense against insanity is hypocrisy.

Jan 102020
 

Civilization depends on exclusion — what and whom to get rid of, what and whom not to let in in the first place.

Jan 092020
 

Sixty years ago we were repressed, and there were a few things it was dangerous to say. Today we are liberated, and there are a great many.

Jan 082020
 

There’s no shame in being wrong, only in not paying for it.