

“The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.”
― Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
― Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism

“Life without law remains chaotic, effectively intolerable. Life that is pure law becomes sterile, equally unbearable. The domination of chaos or sterility equally breeds murderous resentment and hatred.”
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“Anyway, the fervent hope of every undisciplined person (even an undisciplined genius) is that his current worthlessness and stupidity is someone else's fault. If—in the best of cases—it is society's fault, then society can be made to pay. This sleight-of-hand maneuver transforms the undisciplined into the admirable rebel, at least in his own eyes, and allows him to seek unjustified revenge in the disguise of the revolutionary hero. A more absurd parody of heroic behavior can hardly be imagined.”
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
but poems flare in my heart”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures”
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