"Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless……" — Robert Anton Wilson
"Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence."
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Robert Anton Wilson
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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This…
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what…
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet…
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
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All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid…
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To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits,…
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a…
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any…
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