Many famous and respectable men are incompletely domesticated, and now and then one will do or say something to sabotage his reputation, as a bear will gnaw off its leg to get out of a trap.

It is first necessary, if you wish to save the world, to eliminate anyone who can save himself.

Populism is mostly the desire for better elites.

Bad people are a fertile and oft-neglected source of good ideas.

An ounce of exit is worth a pound of voice.

Both sides are always guilty, and never equally guilty.

Respectable opinion is a sandbox, and it is the children who play at its edges who guard it most zealously from the children who are not allowed to play at all.

Good requires the willingness, now and then, to look bad.

Feelings can be every bit as wrong as thoughts.

Conversation gets especially high praise from people who never shut up.

Convictions are no index to character, and if you think otherwise, you are a bad person.

A well-crafted insult must balance verisimilitude and bile.

You may speak for others when they hire you to do so.

Pay special regard to the most obvious, most widely disseminated, most often repeated nonsense -- it is the loyalty test. (h/t: @EricRWeinstein)

To pretend that everybody rules is the quickest way to get your hands on everybody's stuff.

There are two kinds of philosophers: those who begin with the conclusions, and fill in with egregious reasoning; and those who begin with the reasoning, and arrive at egregious conclusions.

The great unsolved problem in psychology is the happiness and success of our inferiors.