Quotations

I feel your pain - and I enjoy your pain

The debating-society approach to life will leave you at ease with disagreement and happy to have any assertion tested.

True words are not always pleasant,
And pleasant words are not always true.

The wise are not always learned.
And the learned are not always wise.

The good are not many.
The many are not good.

How you think is everything. Think Animal.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master but is compelled, while seeing what's good for him, to do what's worse.

You aren't alive until you begin to discipline yourself

The happy life is lived by consciously following rules.

If you refuse to do what you feel like doing and do what you find unpleasant, your position, no matter what it is, will be much improved.

He's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray every night for the bloodshed to cease.
They wouldn't hurt a fly, if they did they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.

Speed kills the enemy

Charisma is over-valued. Solid policy detached from personality is reassuring.

Rigid schedules, routine, being polite instead of authentic, these were seen as sell-outs to the rat race. But, even then, some people knew that the anti-work attitude wasn't a valid cause even as they mouthed the counter-cultural propaganda.

A welfare society weans people away from the impulse necessary to sustain it.

Successful entrepreneurs are not prone to dark nights of the soul. That's why they're successful.

Obsession is the key to success.

Perseverance is the one factor that distinguishes the highly successful.

As soon as difficulties arise, the commander must have great force of will.

He wields a few simple ideas with blunt force.

How you think is everything. Think Animal.

The wish for peace separated from self-defence is a free ticket to a beating.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so by the exertions of better men

Sometimes, defeat isn't due to weakness; it's caused by fear.

The activists of the sixties made a bohemian idea mainstream: that human sexuality could be freed from any constraints.

Acceptance is not a sign of broad-mindedness but the failure to make proper distinctions.

Respect for difference is not endorsing the different. Tolerance demands that people who despise each other privately should live side by side in civility.

Western culture prizes consensual government, private markets, self-criticism, and rational inquiry.

Those who mistake pieties for thought can keep their orthodoxies intact only by averting their gaze from the most elementary reality.

The speed with which they adapted was based on a lack of respect for tradition and useless theories.

How you think is everything. Think Animal.

Hurt feelings come from believing yourself shorn from the herd.

We are under no obligation to care for drunken strangers who refuse to sober up -- especially those who try to kill us.

You're fed up working hard while someone else gets the money. You think your technical skills qualify you to run a successful business. Wrong!