Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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I have found little that is “good” about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Author : Sigmund Freud
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Author : Edward Abbey
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Author : Sigmund Freud
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Author : Plato
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
Author : Ben Kingsley
Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck.
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Author : H. L. Mencken
No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
