Shadows

are the illuminations
of the secret.

Christian Heaven

has not a single animal.
It is as sterile
as a hospital.

Religion :

concentration-camps
built on quicksand.

A spam e-mail that came today :

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wet and hungry for
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The Good Life :

doing nothing
gracefully-disgracefully.

Happy people

aren't competitive.

You can abolish war

only by abolishing armies.

Sooner, rather than later,

machines
dehumanise.

Anomie :

'the illness
of limitless expectation'
and illusory autonomy.

...as Napoleon might have said :

all humans are evil,
but some are more evil than others.

Since I judge

men by their beards
and women by their brains
almost all of my friends
are women.

Having

is doing,
not being.

Because we have no souls

we are ambitious.
And so we are the only
Criminal Species.

It is obvious

that most people would rather
be entertained than wise.
What is even more depressing is that
they would rather be entertained
than happy.

Sex is for the young.

Mature people know better.
But almost nobody
is allowed to mature.

The only humility possible

within our culture
is anonymity.

The only good property

is the property nobody wants.

Words

seem to corrupt
everything they seem
to describe.

The madness

of mass-murderers
is unexceptional.

Forest :

an area the size of a football-pitch
is cut down
every second.

Water :

11,000 litres
are used in manufacturing
a handbag.

Even the brightest

of us do not know
what to do with
our intelligence.

When islands of ordinary goodness

manage to survive the waves of ordinary hate,
we call it Peace.

I am angry

because there are armies.