I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: Human Nature.
Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying no to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.
Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on screw children, and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.
The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you,’ but, ‘Tell me more.
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
There’s a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they’re leftists.
To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that’s not really getting along with anyone. That’s just self erasure.
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.