Quotations

Once, these fifth-columnists screamed "Power to the people." Now they have the power and realize they've always hated the people

I feel your pain - and I enjoy your pain

The marriage brought together two ruthless, egotistical, controlling people, each capable of desperately unreasonable behaviour.

True words are not always pleasant,
And pleasant words are not always true.
The wise are not always learned.
And the learned are not always wise.
The good are not many.
The many are not good.

How you think is everything. Think Animal.

The heroes of hip-hop have done what those of us who grew up in the 60s would have thought impossible: they have robbed black music of its optimism, exhuberance and joy.

The minute your feet falter it's time to quicken the pace

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master but is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

A man does not live until he begins to discipline himself

The happy life for a man is a life of consciously following a rule

He's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray every night for the bloodshed to cease.
They wouldn't hurt a fly, if they did they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.

Speed kills the enemy

Charisma is over-valued. Solid policy detached from personality is reassuring.

Rigid schedules, routine, being polite instead of authentic, these were seen as sell-outs to the rat race. But, even then, some people knew that the anti-work attitude wasn't a valid cause even as they mouthed the counter-cultural (bohemian) propaganda.

Nothing important was ever done in a prudential frame of mind.

A welfare society weans people away from the impulse necessary to sustain it.

Successful entrepreneurs are not prone to dark nights of the soul. That's why they're successful.

As soon as difficulties arise, the commander must have great force of will.

Perseverance is the one factor that distinguishes the highly successful.

If only a man will not do what he would like to do, and do those things he finds unpleasant, his position, no matter what it is, will be much improved.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so by the exertions of better men

Those who mistake pieties for thought can keep their orthodoxies intact only by averting their gaze from the most elementary reality.

He wields a few simple ideas with blunt force.

The wish for peace separated from self-defence is a free ticket to a beating.

Anyone who goes into battle promising herself that she'll come out a corpse or a conqueror is sure to win. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the soul by the desire to retreat so that -- on some other day -- you can fight to win.

The activists of the sixties made a bohemian idea mainstream: that human sexuality could be freed from the constraints of convention and financial interest so that relations between the sexes could be based upon the attraction of the moment.

Acceptance is not a sign of broad-mindedness but the failure to make proper distinctions.

Respect for difference is not endorsing the different. Tolerance demands that people who despise each other privately should live side by side in civility.

Western culture prizes consensual government,
private markets, self-criticism, and rational inquiry.

The speed with which they adapted was based in a lack of respect for tradition and useless theories.

The debating-society approach to life will leave you at ease with disagreement and happy to have any assertion tested.

Hurt feelings come from believing yourself shorn from the herd.

We are under no obligation to care for drunken strangers who will not sober up, especially those who, in their intoxication, try to kill us.

You're fed up working hard while someone else gets the money. You think your technical skills qualify you to run a successful business. Wrong!