John Carroll Quotes

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.