30 Quotes by Brett Stevens

I don't care what 2+2 equals in some idealized, objective, universal, and absolute sense. I want to hang out with the people who think that 2+2=4, whether right or wrong.

Collaboration means working toward a goal; collectivism means a socialist style support group that "shares the wealth.

Materialism is the essence of every destructive action taken by humanity, even though most who practice it would have no knowledge of it by name. Most people, being well-meaning but misinformed and physically unable to undergo the cognitive process of holistic vision, drift towards materialistic ideas and strive towards what gives them personal physical comfort and wealth.

Fatalism and selfishness will be eternally popular because they're the same thing. Don't reach out into the world and challenge yourself; you're fine just the way you are! Don't strive for anything. Don't grow. Just be, and you're EQUAL and we're all happy. If people aren't convinced, hide behind the idea that nothing ever changes and there's no point doing anything, except living for your own comfort and convenience.

Can you undog a dog back into a wolf?

Most of our failures in love involve self-deception. The other was not all that excited about the relationship, but we projected our enthusiasm onto the other and charged ahead. Or the other was hopeful, but we were cynical and attributed that same motivation to the other. We can ignore the needs of an other because they are not impulses we feel; we can ignore warning signs because they do not fit into our vision of what should be.

Equality makes everyone into a prostitute for social influence points, or status. This leads them to become entirely self-serving, independent of their actual role in civilization, and this leads to a mixture of arrogance, pretense, narcissism and solipsism which is the defining feature of the person in the egalitarian society.

To reject decision-making, as a whole, is passivity, not nihilism [...]. Nihilism is a rejection of any belief system that is exclusively human, e.g. does not have a paired structure in nature. That means that unless we see reason to believe in the Gods, we do not believe.

Work hard — millions of bureaucrats earning $200k/yr depend on you!