If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

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

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.