Category Archives: Sayings

The real thought leaders are the people “thought leaders” rip off. The real thought leaders are the people “thought leaders” secretly want to impress.

If it is not true today, it will not be true in “the future.”

A few men are secretly unhappy, but no one is secretly happy.

Assume that when the end comes, the only witnesses you can call in your defense are former employees.

If no one preaches to the choir, it won’t be the choir for long.

“Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets. The revolutionary who seeks to change ‘man’s condition’ ends up being shot for being a counter-revolutionary.” ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“It is hardly surprising if we are driven by the blasts of storms when our chief aim on this sea of life is to displease wicked men.” -Boethius

“The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius.” -Antoine de Rivarol

“Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies it powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.” -Thomas Szasz (1974)

A feigned care for the poor has brought as much suffering on the world as poverty itself. It is not a sin to be poor, but it is a sin to pretend to pity the poor, and the wages of sin is death.