“There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery”

I want nothing, and I hope for nothing.

““By constantly appealing to the lowest common denominator, a sensationalized popular culture lowers the common denominator still further. Public tastes become still more attuned to the fluff and puffery of junk culture, the big hype, the trashy, flashy, wildly violent, instantly stimulating, and desperately superficial offerings. Such fare often has real ideological content. Even if supposedly apolitical in its intent, entertainment culture (which is really the entertainment industry) is political in its impact, propagating images and values that are often downright sexist, racist, authoritarian, materialistic, and militaristic.””

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”

“Make yourself a priority. At the end of the day, you’re your longest commitment.”

“The highest version of a lover’s love should naturally offer you the freedom (and expansion) to support you in living your best life. If not, perhaps you have the wrong lover.”

“All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice — that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.”