When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.