Everything – Page 132 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 252018
 

Anyone who has not invested in his own recommendations has no skin in the game; and anyone who has is talking his book.

Dec 242018
 

What is privilege? A term — beloved by parents, nuns, schoolmarms, jailers — to describe what doesn’t belong to you, and can be revoked at any time without reason or warning.

Dec 212018
 

There are worse ways to judge a government than if the trains run on time.

Dec 192018
 

Capitalism is a daily exercise in getting what you want without knowing what you want.

Dec 182018
 

Men and women both know what men want, and neither know what women want, yet in the end, it’s women who get what they want.

Dec 172018
 

The conservative stands athwart history with a radar gun, handing out the occasional speeding ticket to make quota.

Dec 142018
 

Do what you love for a living, and learn to hate it.

Dec 122018
 

What matters is not the size of the lie but its endless repetition: we imagine a big lie is easier to swallow because there is no point in wasting the propaganda apparatus on a small one.