The vast, shadowy organizations you fear are made up of frightened, neurotic little people just like you.
Religion teaches us that when a man commits adultery it is the woman's fault unless it is the women's fault.
Subversion doesn't feel like like going to school in black; it feels like going to school in a clown suit.
Complicated machinery has had to be matched by complicated social arrangements, designed to work as smoothly and efficiently as the new instruments of production.
We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated, suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
-H. L. Mencken
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist is afraid that it is.
This is only a test! Had this been an actual life, you would have been instructed where to tune for news and official information.
The rarity of genuine feeling in human society sometimes makes me stop in the street to watch a dog gnawing a bone.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Death needs Time for what it kills to grow in for Ah Pook’s sweet sake, you stupid, vulgar, greedy, ugly American deathsucker.
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