Malcolm Azania Quotes

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Good triumphs over evil when it's better organized, better trained, better armed, sneakier, and gutsier than evil.

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All of them cite that toxic spew, even though there's not a syllable of supporting evidence. Because the controversy itself became news. Save a country, save a world, save a child—it doesn't matter. You don't need proof or even evidence to burn down a man's soul. All you need is accusation.

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There's only two types of people in the world, Ye, weird and boring.

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Take responsibility for your own happiness, rather than claiming telepathy you don't have (unless you are telepathic) or ascribing to others ugly thoughts you can't verify, and aiming endless, nonspecific blame for your mediocrity at the Trilateral Commission, the media, SKULL, the RAND Corporation, the long-disbanded Treemasons, the MAN, the Black Helicopter Legion, or the perennial favorite of paranoiacs, Them.

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People get accustomed to evil like they get accustomed to smog or noise or graffiti! But it doesn't change what it is.

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It's inevitable that worship decays into contempt, because worship is ultimately about being trapped, being a slave.

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What do I 'feel'? he sneered... Did you actually ask me what I 'feel'? I 'feel' I'm surrounded by morons!

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Hnossi glowered at her daughter, a look cold enough to freeze sunshine and shatter it on the pavement.

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When people are suffering, they usually hurt the people closest to them, because those are the only ones left around.

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The id isn't satisfied with enough, because enough is never enough. The id always needs more, or specifically, more than anybody else. So enough becomes more than which becomes all. And even then, the id fears that all can be taken away; therefore crushing the capacity of others to resist becomes paramount.

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That uncountable myths and legends and ecclesiastical operas and dirges have at their core, if not in their trappings, near identical mechanisms, performances, and outcomes is proof most solid of the centrality of the panhuman subconscious—or superconscious—experience of the myriad and manifold wonders and terrors of the cosmos.

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Paranoia speaks to a deeper drive than fear. Paranoia is a defiant charge to a cold, unfeeling cosmos: Hear me! I exist! I'm important! Because after all, if someone is actually orchestrating the chaos of the universe against you personally, then you do matter. When no one seems to care anymore, at least enemies give you the comforting illusion that you count.

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They're everything that's wrong in this instant-coffee and microwave age. 'I want it now.' There used to be that romantic image of going off to Tibet and climbing the mountain to speak to the wise man. And when you got to the top, he could tell you the truths of the universe. Now people wanna take a helicopter to the top—or e-mail him!

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We challenge ourselves to try at least four new bizarrities in every week's groceries.

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As Carl Jung said, avoidance of legitimate suffering is the root of all mental illness. And one truth you must suffer is that everything and everyone you love will eventually die.
Even gods.

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Much has been dissected from among the myths to explore the significance of the mortal endurance and experience of pain. Pain, we are told, purifies the body, expands the mind, prepares the novice for the tests of life and therefore for initiation into the clan, the sect, the tribe, the gang, the squadron, the priesthood, the academy, the coven, or the board. It is clear that such suppositions regarding physical or emotional pain are true; little more need be said on such matters.

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Good people get hurt—bad people get ahead, get rich, get your girl. Good doesn't triumph over evil. So, do I believe in God?
He doesn't believe in me.

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I know I'm not the same man I was eight days ago.
And I know it's time to find out who I am.

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That diabolical deviant is smarter than he smells.

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It's a special kind of hugging, the kind where deep down you're facing the unspoken fact that this's the last time you're gonna hold somebody, and so you make your cells hold on, make em drink in somebody's scent and texture, so you can keep em with you after the world has taken em away.

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I never sought glory. Basic respect would suffice.

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People are so lazy, they want everything to be simple, but nothing is simple. Nothing.

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Lack of verifiability was a paranoiac's playground paradise.

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Believing in anyone more than you believe in yourself causes you to suspend your own judgment, which leads to counter-self-actualization, or self-deactivation.

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Even if victory were possible, it still couldn't provide meaning or genuine happiness, because saying I want to be the best is simply the polite way of saying I want everyone else to be worse.

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We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it's time to get up.

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When dysfunctional self-distraction devolves into delusional self-destruction, neurosis turns into psychosis.

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The history of human development can neatly be divided into two epochs: (1) the feminine, yin, agro-sedentary pastoral idyll of the old-to-late Paleolithic Mother-Earth-Goddess religions and (2) the masculine, yang, technomobile hunter-gatherer-warrior field effect of urbanized, late-Neolithic-to-Modern Father-Sky-God religions.

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It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.

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All organic. No chemicals here, no way. The red globe grapes, $8.99 a kilo. I take a pawful, pop em, one at a time. They crunch. This is my only wine. This is my Sunday sacrament... sweet and honest and decent. No lies from chemists, or from priests.
You wanna heal your soul? Step one is healing your soil.

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