You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.
With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
These social platforms are all invented by very liberal people on the West and East Coast, and we figure out how to use it to push conservative values. I don't think they ever thought that would happen.
It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.
