Grayden > Grayden's Quotes

“Yes, we have a soul, but it's made of lots of tiny robots.”
― Giulio Giorello

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
― Laurence Peter

“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully channeled *their* primitive, violent impulses into a socially acceptable form known as 'ruthlessness,' while monopolizing the right to use outright violence as a last resort for maintaining an otherwise indefensible accumulation of power and wealth.”
― R. U. Sirius

“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

“Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!”
― Ryan North

“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.”
― Robert A. Heinlein