26 Quotes by Jarett Kobek

It’s so easy to demonstrate your own righteousness and it’s so easy to challenge the social order when all you’re doing is picking on idiots who are better off ignored and left to wither in the stench of their own lives! You.

More than anything, The One True God was a potent weapon used by sexually repressed members of society to inflict misery on everyone else.

She had never gone into an office. She had no idea that most people woke up every weekday morning and went to a place where they were disrespected and worked for people they hated. Adeline didn’t realize that when people went to their place of business, they put on a spiritual mask which hid their true selves and their actual opinions.

Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.

The world was run by its bankers. The world was run by its investor class. The world was run by its manufacturers. The history of human destiny was money, the men who controlled it, and nothing more. Money, a measure of humiliation, was the only thing that mattered.

The whole world was on a script of loss and people only received their pages moments before they read their lines.

The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people.

It’s arguable that Ayn Rand’s finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death.