Great Throughts Treasury

"Americans are all celebrating how much they hate the British at the moment."

"And if I really was a hero, and were in a world that was, you know, a world of heroes... I don't think I would be like Robin Hood. I think I want to keep a bit of the money. I'd give SOME away, but I wouldn't give it ALL away. I just think that's crazy."

"And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war."

"A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments."

"All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering"

"Allow players to marry each other; allow them to have children together."

"Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on."

"All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the estrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children."

"Anger is the immune system of the soul."

"Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue."

"As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people and we need the state to achieve that end."

"Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence."

"Because taxes are so high - in part to pay for state-serving science experiments, a lot of parents feel they both need to work and so the mum can't breastfeed her kid. These fucking scientists, these fucking fascist corporations, these fucking warmongers, these military industrial clusterfucks, these arsehole academics are literally profiting from the ripping of mothers milk out of the mouths of babes."

"Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they destroy civilized interactions through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family and self-reliance. No state in history has ever been contained. It?s only taken a little more than a century for the US ? founded on the idea of limited government, to break the bonds of the constitution, institute the income tax, take control of the money supply and the educational system and begin its catastrophic expansion."

"Because people haven?t been reasoned into their beliefs, they can?t be reasoned out of their beliefs, [and] when people have existing prejudices, showing them facts that run counter to those prejudices does not dislodge them. In fact, statistically, it is more likely to make those prejudices stronger."

"Be big enough to offer the truth to people and if it short circuits them I think that's tragic. I think that's sad but, I will not strike no unholy bargains to self-erase. I won?t do it. I don't care how many people fucked up their lives. I don't care how many bad choices people have made. I don't care how much pettiness they've consumed and spat out. I don't care how much viciousness , rage, abuse, spanking they've dealt out. I am gonna tell the truth as I see it and I'm going to be who I fucking am and if that causes the world to shift in its orbit and half the evil people get thrown off the planet and up into space well, you shouldn't of been standing in evil to begin with because, there is gravity in goodness. So, sorry; I have to be who I am. Everyone ells is taken. There is no other place I can go than in my own head. I can't jump from skull to skull until I find one that suits bad people around me better. I don't have that choice. So, be your fucking self. Speak your truth and if there are people around you who tempt you with nonexistence , blast through that and give them the full glory of who you are. Do not withhold yourself from the world. Do not piss on the incandescent gift of your existence. Don't drown yourself in the petty fog and dustiness of other people?s ancient superstitions, beliefs, aggressions, culture, and crap. No, be a flare. We're all born self-expressive. We are all born perfectly comfortable with being incredibly inconvenient to our parents. We shit, piss, wake up at night, throw up on their shoulders, scream, and cry. We are in our essence, in our humanity, perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others. That's how we are born. That's how we grow. That's how we develop. Well, I choose to retain the ability to inconvenience the irrational. You know I had a cancer in me last year and I'm very glad that the surgeon?s knife and the related medicines that I took proved extremely inconvenient to my cancer and I bet you my cancer was like Aw shit. I hate this stuff man. Good. I'm only alive because medicine and surgery was highly inconvenient to the cancer within me. That's the only reason I'm alive. So, be who you are. If that's inconvenient to other people that's their goddamn business, not yours. Do not kill yourself because other people are dead. Do not follow people into the grave. Do not atomize yourself because, others have shredded themselves into dust for the sake of their fears and their desire to conform with the history of the dead."

"Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. No, you?re supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. I don't actually want to receive it because I know its fake money."

"Asshole Proximity Disorder."

"Being loved means; are disagreements welcome in my relationships? If you can?t disagree with someone then you live in a tyranny and if you live in a tyranny then you are only loved to the degree that you erase yourself and conform to the irrational expectations of bullies. That isn't love obviously. Now if somebody in your life demands that you not disagree with them and gets angry, offended, or outraged should you disagree with them then, that person is not a good person. It's pretty narcissistic. It's somebody who does not have the maturity, wisdom, and ego strength to handle, and in fact welcome disagreements. When people disagree with me as a whole I think it's a great opportunity for learning. People don't want to expose topics that might cause disagreement because if the disagreement is punished then the illusion of being loved by good people is shattered."

"Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?'."

"Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace."

"Deep connection is the antidote to madness."

"Dear Hunger Games: Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil. You don't need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil. You don't need your father's light sabre, or to be bitten by a radioactive spider. You don't need to be stalked by a creepy ancient vampire who is basically a pedophile if you're younger than a redwood. Screw you mainstream media for making it look like moral courage requires hair gel, thousands of sit ups and millions of dollars of fake ass CGI. Moral courage is the gritty, scary and mostly anonymous process of challenging friends, co-workers and family on issues like spanking, taxation, debt, circumcision and war. Moral courage is standing up to bullies when the audience is not cheering, but jeering. It is helping broken people out of abusive relationships, and promoting the inner peace of self-knowledge in a shallow and empty pseudo-culture. Moral courage does not ask for - or receive - permission or the praise of the masses. If the masses praise you, it is because you are helping distract them from their own moral cowardice and conformity. Those who provoke discomfort create change - no one else. So forget your politics and vampires and magic wands and photon torpedoes. Forget passively waiting for the world to provoke and corner you into being virtuous. It never will. Stop watching fictional courage and go live some; it is harder and better than anything you will ever see on a screen. Let's make the world change the classification of courage from 'fantasy' to 'documentary.' You know there are people in your life who are doing wrong. Go talk to them, and encourage them to pursue philosophy, self-knowledge and virtue. Be your own hero; you are the One that your world has been waiting for."

"Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability? It?s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money."

"Even more... I was going to say 'fucking'. Can I say 'fucking'? Oh what the hell, I'll say 'fucking'. Even more fucking cool is combining that with magic."

"Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived."

"Dr. Peter Boghossian?s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life."

"Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves."

"Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are."

"Evil is a confession of inadequacy"

"Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that."

"Having a little child run out and you say, 'oh, that's just lovely, isn't it' ? that's part of the drama."

"Historical definition of a country's borders... ...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest."

"Government - Free Shit for Idiots."

"Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face."

"I could be alone in a pub drinking a pint of bitter. Come along!"

"Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying."

"His purpose in life - like Asimov's laws of robotics - is not to aggravate you; Not to piss you off. His second thought is this: He absolutely loves you."

"I actually have an almost physical love for Microsoft."

"I don't think experiments should be just experiments. They should start becoming things."

"I don?t fundamentally understand why people give a shit about what other people put up their noses or what other people put in their veins or what other people breathe into their lungs. I mean I sort of care like if somebodies an addict it?s very destructive to people around that addict. It?s destructive to themselves. I?d like to get them help. I certainly support that which is to get that person help but, I don?t understand how people wake up and say I have to eradicate drug use across the land. I gotta stick my nose into the business of what other people stick up their nose. I just find that incomprehensible. I mean, is your life so vacant and so hysterical, so empty, so void of love, care and affection? I can go play with my daughter or I can go and obsessively try and get politicians to throw people in jail for doing things I don?t like. I can?t imagine why people would be choosing option B but, only because they don?t have anyone who loves them or, anyone they care about. They don?t have any rich, significant, important, hobbies, relationships, artistic pursuits or anything rich enough to keep them from obsessing about what other people do or bossing and bulling what other people do. This stick your nose in other people?s business is so compulsive and epidemic to human society."

"I have to be careful what I say, there are PR policeman in the audience with sniper rifles."

"I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities."

"I think the worst time for me that I've ever had an inspirational idea, which was an idea for a feature in Black & White, was actually when I was being intimate with my wife."

"I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head."

"I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity."

"I try not to be around people who want me to be somebody else. Fundamentally you can't be somebody else. You can only be less of who you are."

"I keep finding myself rejected by men, which is a new experience for me."

"I thought, if this crashes the plane, me turning my phone on, so be it."

"I used to have this chat-up line, my only chat-up line. Imagine you're walking on a path - what's the path like? Imagine you go to the woods - what does the forest look like?"