"I don't make promises in case I can't keep them. Sometimes you can't help it; things stop you."

“The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

“The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.”

“What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of new evidence? Doubt and skepticism are signs of rationality. When we are too certain of our opinions, we run the risk of ignoring any evidence that conflicts with our views. It is doubt that shows we are still thinking, still willing to reexamine hardened beliefs when confronted with new facts and new evidence.”

“Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.”

“By the late 70s conservatism was becoming more corporate on the one hand, more theocratic on the other. In reaction to the 60s, conservatism was more about order than freedom, more about conformity than singularity.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.”

Source : "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: 'I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail''" by lyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

“Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.”

“There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism”