"I am bored" generally means "I am boring". |
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. |
All those who support the American war in Iraq should make a deal with anyone opposed to the war. Offer to answer any 20 questions the opponents wish to ask if they will answer just one: Do you believe we are fighting evil people in Iraq? |
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. |
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another. |
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. |
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. |
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. |
I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, �I only regret that I didn't spend more time at the office. |
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. |
In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist. |
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. |
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual. |
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. |
My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them. |