You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
Ever since Steve Bannon was demoted, and drama started playing out between Bannon and Jared Kushner and the firing of Comey and "Is he going to get impeached?" we have been trapped in a classic Survivor reality TV show, like, "Who's going to get voted off the island?" And this has every single news show enjoying ratings never seen before. And it physically pains them to talk about the stakes of this administration, whether it's health care or climate change or the deregulation of the financial sector or social security. None of it can compete with this reality show.
I see a long lost home in his eyes. He sees a nice hotel in mine.
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.