Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. (culture)
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry, and other bad habits. (despair)
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. (life)
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name. (men and women)
`Rock' is the music of slaves. Of adolescents pursuing the illusion of freedom and protest while the steel chains of technology bind them ever tighter. (music)
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime. (diets and dieting)
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things. Usually conducted by government against its own people. (terrorism)
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. (government)
Whenever I read "Time" or "Newsweek" or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? (newspapers)
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, 'I says, `but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. (patriotism)
Simplicity is always a virtue. (simplicity)
New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York. (life and living)
A life without tragedy would not be worth living. (life)
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. (experience)
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of humankind. (fools and foolishnes)
Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. (friends and friendsh)
Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top. (society)
When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
(trouble)
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group. (people)
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen,hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream. (relations)
Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. (death)
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