When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.