Human Nature

"I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be s…"

"Democratic Socialism. It's not the same as Socialism Socialism, because its democratic. Right? Or something. Right? People buy that right? People are buying that now apparently."

"This book is written with the conviction that there are no "good" or "bad" people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem. . . You and I didn't design people. God designed peopl…"

"Individualism denotes the relationship between the individual and the collectivity which prevails in a given society."

"Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first on…"

"Frankly speaking, he did not say much to us about the front. I could guess about many things but don’t know exactly. He said he was rendering humanitarian aid and supported, as a volunteer, people wit…"

"Because arguing with racist people is like playing chess with a pigeon: It doesn't matter how good you are! The pigeon is going to knock all the pieces down and shit on the board and parade around lik…"

"If Bangladesh does not agree to take back its people, then the country should compensate by giving land to India."

"Be nice to every-body. You meet the same people going up as you meet going down."

"In a certain sense human activity systems do not exist, only perceptions of them exist, perceptions which are associated with specific Ws."

"I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life..."

"I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes."

"The Antichrist, at the Nietzsche Society"

"The social organization of work is the most complicated and difficult problem that humanity has ever had to solve. It being possible to realize that organization neither by violence, nor by merely ext…"

"They planned to let bureaucrats snoop on peoples' phone and email conversations. We helped to stop that."

"بيار وشعبه (Pierre and his People (1892"

"That’s what human relationships are about – selective sharing and hiding of information to the point of crazy confusion."

"Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious Idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which one releases surplus energy, ...not …"

"The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain."

"Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker."