Al Goldstein Quotes

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

I think life is instinct, and I just really go by that. That's one of the things I've learned - to always trust my instinct and it's always served me well.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I refuse to be silenced.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

We want more than there is.

When Slenderman screams, the world will end.

Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.

When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always.

My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.