Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.
No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.
. . . a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.
This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.
Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.
Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.