Everything – Page 224 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 122015
 

First Law of Social Science: All effects are weaker than they appear.

Jun 112015
 

Unduly harsh sentences indicate not law and order, but its opposite: that almost no one gets caught.

Jun 092015
 

Truth is often radically antipodal, but never moderate.

Jun 082015
 

Celebrity is the sound of the gates closing on your identity forever.

Jun 052015
 

The satirist’s punishment is praise from his intended victims.

Jun 042015
 

Abstinence makes the will grow firmer.