Dysgenic policy sooner or later becomes dysfunctional policy.

Every modern religion denies, as a matter of theology, that it is a religion.

With elites like these, who needs commoners?

You never get a good piece of music stuck in your head, just an idiotically catchy pop song or advertising jingle; and ideas work the same way.

In honest places the corrupt official does not know his own worth, and comes cheap.

There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.

It's easier to persuade a dozen people to go on a murder spree than to persuade a million to change their brand of toilet paper.

Anonymous, esoteric, or conventional.

School is zero-sum.

Tell me you like Shakespeare or Homer or Tolstoy, I learn nothing about you. Tell me you like Paulo Coelho or Dan Brown or Donna Tartt, now I learn something.

There's too much to hate in the world.

It is an insult to be paid by the word.

There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.

Only the disloyal opposition is worth having.

Any remotely promising new idea will promptly be seized on to explain everything.

There was a time when child crusaders were sold into slavery.

The money is always for something, but the service often differs from the job description.

As the short way to evil is to try to look good, so the short way to stupid is to try to look clever.