The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see might cause pain. But I am not doing the hurting.
I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.