It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Rise above principal and do what's right.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
Insanity is contagious.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
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