Your car alarm should yell your name.

Be the sand you wish to see in the gears.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

A real remedy has to start with the correct diagnosis. And the correct diagnosis is that in the US, populism is rooted in the failure of globalization to deliver palpable benefits to its working class, in Russia, it is rooted in its crony capitalism and inability (or unwillingness) of the West to include Russia as an equal partner, and in China, it is rooted in an inadequate political system.

Nothing changes without individuals and nothing lasts without institutions.

Life is not to be taken seriously. Most people are dumb as fuck. If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid. So we could talk about stupid people or we could just stay with smart people who know how to have fun and not even focus on what dumb people do. It's not worth it. I tell you this as someone who's a smart motherfucker: Don't waste your time fooling with dumb people or trying to figure them out or trying to educate them. It doesn't work. It's a lose-lose situation.

Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

WW2 truly ended in Eastern Europe in 1989.

Filipino president verbally attacks the Pope, jokes about raping missionaries, announces that “I don’t care about human rights”, catcalls female journalists, encourages citizens to shoot drug dealers, and called the US ambassador “a gay son of a whore”. But also, he is lauded for his work promoting women’s and LGBT rights in the Phillipines, and during his tenure as Mayor of Davao transformed it from “the murder capital of the Philippines” to “the world’s fourth safest place”.

Life. n. An immutable, append-only log of events.

Natasha is “Ah, Satan” backwards.

Joke in a Russian newspaper: 'Trump only watches the Olympics to see how high the Mexican pole vaulters can jump'

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

'Conventional wisdom' is just group think without basis.

The only winner tonight is the Voyager probe, which is speeding away from the Earth at 17 kilometers/second.

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

Nobody wants to pay taxes, but everyone is happy to invest.

Our children's books, our iconography and our TV screens are still full of giraffes, wolves and chimpanzees, but the real world has very few of them left.

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how.