As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.