Only the madman is absolutely sure.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.