Everything – Page 140 – A book of aphorisms
Nov 212017
 

Dissent requires the willingness to set aside a few evenings, dissidence the occasional weekend.

Nov 202017
 

It is our former selves that we especially loathe.

Nov 172017
 

Almost everyone means well, and this is terrifying.

Nov 162017
 

There is no freedom to speak without the freedom to be silent.

Nov 152017
 

Authority depends on prestige, or failing that, police.

Nov 142017
 

Let us give thanks to all who disagree with us stupidly, without whom we would have so little to say.

Nov 132017
 

Love is mostly sex and marriage is mostly talk.

Nov 092017
 

Someone who understands politics is about as likely to set up as a pundit as someone who can predict the future is to set up as a psychic.

Nov 082017
 

Civilization creates leisure, leisure promotes folly, and folly ends civilization.