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As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead.

The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.

every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

Fascism is not fashion.