"What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run."

“The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.”

“FLYING DOWN SUNSET SMOKING CRACK TRANSVESTITE IN THE FRONT EDDI MURPHY IN THE BACK MOP HAD ME GRINDY AND GRIDDY MARILYN MANSON, I DYED MY HAIR BLUE AND GREW SOME TITTIES”

“Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.”

Source : "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

“I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.”

“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”

“I believe Korea is making the best movies. Only in Korea - you can do whatever you want to without any rating system or whatever. They can make world-class karate movies and make lots of money, which is very important.”

“Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.”

Source : Richard Florida (2009). “Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life”, p.272, Basic Books