Nearly all people have weak stomachs for any information that doesn’t conform to what they already think. One could define philosophers as those with stomachs of steel and a masochistic addiction to this flavor.
Undoubtedly, they would rather die than forfeit their murderous way of life. Surprisingly, we will grant them their wish.
Man’s biology is the ground. His culture is the architecture on top. Some races have the capacity for skyscrapers and instead build death cults.
Peace is a wonderful pause between wars.
Her looks challenge; the strong stare into her eyes until insanity, the weak avoid her gaze and save themselves.
See the best in those around you and be loved as a god. See the worst and be hated like one.
I will give the other cheek when their hearts are weary from their wickedness. But I refuse to be the spicy appetizer that prepares the aggressors for a larger feast.
A clown is allowed to say what the philosopher thinks, but when the audience doesn’t laugh, the clown gets the rope.
She held her nose and dove into the cesspool of the human psyche to explore the worst of human nature. It would have been easier and more effective to merely observe the barbarians.
She apologized for not forgiving. “How strange!” he exclaimed. “If I had known I deserved it, I wouldn't need your admission. If I don't deserve it, what good is your mistaken forgiveness?”
She apologized again, this time for confusing him.He hung onto every word of his teacher like a man dangling off a cliff. But anyone could see that his teacher’s words would crumble to dust under the slightest pressure.
“Colonizer!” they screamed, as if all other peoples grew from the ground.