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Fear and Rage - QuotesThere is a price to be paid for freedom... a slave has no options but a free person must choose a direction. Like a withered leaf are you now; Death's messengers await you. You stand on the eve of your departure. Yet you have made no provisions for your journey. Buddhist Scripture It is fortunate for those in power that people do not think. I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. Man's Search for Meaning The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. ...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time. Knowledge [is] something that has always stood in the way of religous tyranny. The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people. By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air. Fear the faith that's not the shape of your soul. Common Bonds ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods. One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious. Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral. To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told--and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. The Lost World There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad. Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties. Should we be obeying some old piece of paper or should we make our own decisions? Arthur, Misfortune Teller To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own. ... reason accepts no commandments. In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; But in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue. Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that. ... these highly exalted "linchpins," particularly in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, are nothing more than a carrot-and-stick approach to "morality." Do good or else! Goodness is not promoted for its own sake. It is promoted as a means of avoiding God's wrath and damnation. This is the antithesis of morality. You're doing something good solely because you're afraid of what might happen to you (frying in hell) if you don't. You're looking out for Number One---pure selfishness---the opposite of truly moral behavior. By contrast, those of us who don't believe there are any gods or devils snapping at our heels, do good simply because we feel compassion, and want to help. Surely this is truly moral behavior. We are seeking no spiritual rewards or brownie points for the hereafter. We just want to help. Reading and 'Riting and Revenge The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others. What have the different sects, creeds, doctrines in religion been but so many pretexts set up for men to wrangle, to quarrel, to tear one another in pieces about, like a target as a mark to shoot at? On the Pleasure of Hating Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if the world should perish twice, I think I know enough of hate, to say that for destruction, ice is also great, and would suffice. The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell We need not fear those who do evil in the name of evil, but Heaven protect us from those who do evil in the name of good. No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me. The mind is it's own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven. Paradise Lost The bullet that will kill me has not yet been cast. The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral. I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong. Our minds are circumscribed by our immediate reality, but we stop short at the thought of it. Realist: The word means so many things to so many different people that it should never be used without the utmost care. Nevertheless, one might rashly put up the word now and then as a farmer puts up a scarecrow, in the hope that ungrounded minds might fly elsewhere. What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you. There was a hole inside his soul a manicure could not fill so he found himself a whore to love while daisies choked in the window sill. He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me, He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it christianity. The Downward Spiral |
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