My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.
Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.
Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.
Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.