Inequality is the one unforgivable heresy, and all the conventional pieties conspire to disguise its existence.
Mar 052021
Mar 042021
Some men feed on opprobrium: the scorn of the crowd assures them of their own unbending integrity.
Mar 032021
The illusion it affords of objectivity is conversion’s great appeal: the convert, though once a fanatic, has learned his lesson, and today’s belief is informed exclusively by a sober consideration of its merits.
Mar 022021
Quotation device, n. A man whose memory surpasses his wit; whose conversation consists largely or exclusively of other people’s words. Cf. citation device.
Mar 012021
No one holds humanity in higher regard than he holds himself.
Feb 262021
There is a certain type of purveyor of ideas, too stupid to be anything but candid, which makes him useful, like the canary in a coal mine.
Feb 252021
I would far rather be ruled by the football team than the computer club, let alone the debate team, student government, or model U.N.
Feb 242021
Our politics is what we call the violence we wish to visit on our fellows and lack the strength and courage to undertake personally: a neatly-bound, clearly-labeled package of all our worst impulses.
Feb 232021
The only difference between utopia and dystopia is that utopia is nowhere and dystopia is everywhere.
Feb 222021
If you want something done right, get someone to do it who knows how.