Power is competence.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.
The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.
It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
'Happiness' is a pointless goal.
To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
