Everything – Page 161 – A book of aphorisms
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.

Nov 072017
 

A successful corporation is a triumph of central planning.

Nov 062017
 

I’m not sure what normality is, but insisting that one is not at all normal must have something to do with it.