Quotations

“You have to give the nuts 20% of what they want.” Richard Nixon

"A friend asked: "why do so many smart people adopt leftist ideology?"

".....so, here's my answer:

"They adopt it because it is the modern phase of the religion they were mostly brought up with -- i.e. it is half-secularized christianity. It seems to complete in a non-religious and rational way the unexamined moral assumptions that form their superego.

"In other words it gives them what they unconsciously crave in a form they can accept.

Buck Mulligan



At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.


PG Wodehouse