State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.