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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.