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.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
[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.
Rise above principal and do what's right.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
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?
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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.
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.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Insanity is contagious.
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.
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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