The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.
It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is.
Not all writing is worth reading. Just because someone can put words on a page doesn’t mean they are worth reading or add value.
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.
Kad bi ljudi znali koliko malo pameti upravlja svetom, umrli bi od straha.
Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.
I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
From my point of view, patriotism is primarily not the sense of pride for your your country, but a burning sense of shame for the crimes that are being committed on behalf of your country, my country.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I see mass hysteria as part of the Future Shock of our accelerated social destabilization as 'life as we know it' vanishes and gets replaced more and more by 'life as we used to read it in science fiction.' Naive people have grown terrorized by text books, by pop music, by games, and even by schoolteachers (the most inoffensive persons around) .... the whole modern (or post-modern) world seems incomprehensible, and therefore sinister, to millions of our citizen. If you want to grok what these ordinary beer-and-hotdog Americans feel when they see a Gay Pride parade on TV, try to imagine your own reaction to a Cannibal Pride parade. I do not mean that Gays should 'go back in the closet,' or that any other genies should or can go back into their bottles. I just mean that the world has begun to freak out a lot of ignorant people.
Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands. It’s the same reason people self-pity: to delay action, to make an outcry to the universe, as though the more they state how bad things are, the more likely it is that someone else will change them.
The most selfish act of all is kindness, because its reward is so much greater than the investment.
What people say about you behind your back is none of your business.
No man was ever wise by chance.
There is no failure in sports.
Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed.