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The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Pimpin' ain't dead 'cause I be the life line.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

It was a trivial entertainment piece, capable of neither harm nor good.

He also got to write a book about whiskey a few years before his death from cancer, which entailed driving around Scotland and sampling the product, engendering perhaps thousands of envious curses from writers around the world.

The snow came quickly, white hornets stinging in the thin atmospheric night.

that what we term sanity is only a measure of success in concealing underlying madness

Borne wasn't even a killer as I was a killer, but someone who killed the innocent and tried to call them guilty.

If the world is a just place, that mark

Our minds were down below, being feasted on by the bears.

He had brand-new pink-jade biogem eyes, and they made him look like a geriatric rabbit.

He knew, too, that nukes were locked in on Area X from the nearest silos, military satellites keeping watch from above.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

I'm not an answering machine—I don't have a message for you! What I have for you is a story.

The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.