“it somehow felt dissociating. A world in which I did not belong to, or could never belong to. Parties, as if it was 1920, transpired days and nights, spent in the bliss of alcohol, self-indulgence, sex and drug abuse. As if we humans were whores addicted to the ignorance and bliss of nothingness that drugs, sex and alcohol brought about. A never-ending freedom in which we could always come back to if we needed to. Luxurious, the life of the rich.”
Source: Atlas Loved
“Transformational leadership is like medicine in society. It mends whatsoever is broken.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“I surrendered myself to the cages of others' expectations, cultural mandates and institutional allegiances. Until I buried who I was in order to become what I should be. I lost myself when I learned how to please.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“Love is enough. Its society's views and old-world thinking that broke everything.”
Source: First Love, Take Two
“In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.”
“In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying." ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)”
“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
“Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“You've got to be good before you can do good - or at any rate do good without doing harm at the same time. Helping with one hand and hurting with the other - that's what the ordinary reformer does.”
Source: Time Must Have a Stop
“Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.”
Source: Death on the Installment Plan