Quotes

You don’t need an argument against violence, you need an argument for it.

To the creative mind there is no right or wrong. Every action is an experiment, and every experiment yields its fruit in knowledge.

My hunch is that consciousness is a non-local function of the universe as a whole & our brains are only local transceivers

It is infinitely more distasteful for a professional female model to say, “I’m beautiful” than it is for a professional male athlete to say, “I’m the best in the game.” But nothing is more offensive than a woman saying, “I’m rich.”

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

The Language of the Gods is most suitably understood by means of Symbols and Correspondences. It may thus be grasped by the Initiate in a manner conducive to meditative study and the contemplation of the interconnectedness of Nature’s component aspects. This is the means whereby the Intellect comprehends the Symbolic Articulation of the Magical Cipher:- Whosoever is knowing of the Ritual and Contemplative Paths of Calling-forth the Occult Powers will endeavour to seek the true pronounciation of the Sacred Letters in terms of vocalization. This is most secret and dangerous, for by the Phonic Path of Rhythm, Pitch and Note the Elder Gods are called upon directly…

It takes only the acceptance of a single belief to make someone a magician. It is the meta-belief that belief is a tool for achieving effects. This effect is often far asier to observe in others than in oneself.

It is supposed, beyond question, that what the United States does and stands for is right and good; if others fail to recognize this moral rectitude, plainly they are at fault. The naivete is not without a certain childish appeal – which quickly fades, however, when we recognize how it is converted into an instrument for inflicting suffering and pain.

The nation-state is thus not in any general decline, anywhere. In some ways, it is still maturing. However, even if it were declining in the face of the supranational forces that I will shortly analyse, it is still gaining at the expense of the local, the regional, and especially the private forces. The modern nation-state remains a uniquely intense conception of sovereignty. Militarism, communications infrastructures, economic, social, and familial regulation, and intense feelings of national community attachment have been fused into a single caging institution. There is a reality lying behind the facile assumption made by so many social scientists in the recent past that the ‘society’ that they were studying was the nation-state.
But our ‘society’ has never been merely national. It has also been transnational – involving relations that freely cross national boundaries. And it has also been geopolitical – involving the relations between national units. Transnational relations are not merely ‘postmodern’: they have always undercut the sovereignty of all states. Geopolitical relations restrict the sovereignty of states which are parties to binding agreements, and they more persistently undercut the sovereignty of weaker states.

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.