Quotes

• Those who cannot acquire virtue must retain innocence.
Those with neither virtue nor innocence must seek celebrity.

• Don’t insist on what you don’t want

• Most of capitalism’s critics propose no alternative. They are, in fact, part of capitalism’s brand as an inclusive and tolerant system of everything.

• An army of idiots is more effective than a congress of geniuses.

• A civilisation that outlaws psychedelics is like ugly people outlawing mirrors.

If there were a single point of political failure, it would be that only idiots
are willing to believe that.

• The fundamental incompatibility between men and women is that natural selection rewards women for smart decisions about sex, and it rewards men for their mistakes.

• It is the fundamental test of awareness is to interact with similarity harmoniously.

It has been the singular achievement of feminism to acquire equal rights for women in those [male] hierarchies, in order to preserve and protect the patriarchy.

Victorian Women were Smashing

• Mental health professionals can promote only the kind of mental health that is compatible with the funding of mental health professionals. Otherwise, there would be no mental health professionals. There is no such thing as mental health that is useless to capitalism.

Other Authors

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.

Andrew Lewis, 2010

My generation was promised colonies on the moon. Instead we got Facebook.

Peter Thiel, early Facebook investor

Il n’y a qu’un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c’est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d’être vécue, c’est répondre à la question fondamentale de la philosophie.

Albert Camus

Il n’y a pas d’amour de vivre sans désespoir de vivre.

Albert Camus