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- The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a…
- Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything…
- At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
- We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be…
- Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child…
- The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer…
- It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
- One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
- It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The…
- Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers…
- Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but…
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how…
- Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are…
- Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and…
- Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he…
- I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,…
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