When it’s too convenient, we can all travel up our own tight little path to a place of obscenity within us; while, possibly only if we so wish through exercising free choice, keeping tight hold of a common sense of decency helps prevent it.

One can do immoral or illegal things every day, just so long as one doesn’t break one’s own highly refined ethical standards while doing so.

One can laugh at oneself when something there is revealed to be particularly funny, however, it may take on a more serious demeanour later, if one survives the episode.

If you’re not the same, you’re different; and if you’re different, you can be mocked for it.

Thoughts that drift away you’ll never miss much, until you try to recall them with alacrity.

If you’re wise enough to avoid saying something stupid today, then you can also be clever enough not to avoid saying it in passing tomorrow.

It’s a pity that most people don’t like to hear the truth spoken about themselves, particularly when it’s someone else’s version of it.

People do like to be given the credit for existing, but from whom, that’s the question.

Those people who can manage to do things coolly, calmly, and collectedly, can also manage to do it all over you.

Beware of what you can think of: it may not be all there.

The first thing in social life that you have to take care of is your personality, then you have got to become manipulative, next you have to understand why to be manipulative.

Within society considering other people’s motivations is of paramount importance to the individual, in that they will affect him in every way he did not even think possible.

Pushing your nose into someone else’s business is always a rather odorous affair, but that’s not to say you might not enjoy doing it.

What you should ask of some person getting in your way is: “Why is this person getting in my way?” And if you can work that out in time to do something appropriate about it you’ll be a clever fellow indeed.

Personal dislike is the immediate reaction used in humanity’s essentially “primate culture”, to ward off the “evil eye” of those individuals who would disrupt the harmony of life-style within the group.

Having a real, sharply defined truth of life revealed to us does not necessarily make us any wiser, however, it does make us more curious.

In each other’s company, the self-possessed enjoy themselves most freely when they relate most easily to each other’s prejudices.

Those people who have made some mistake socially (and so slink-off to “lick their wounds”) surely then, have also made a mental note to correct it in some way as well.

If, for what you are, you are consistently and persistently attacked, then you must also find indirect ways of fighting back.

Just because an action is forthright, well thought out and well executed, doesn’t mean it’s going to be a right and proper thing to do, but you’re probably going in the right direction.

Effort produces possibilities of advancement not envisaged by other, less active courses of action. This merely seems harder to pursue than failing.

Dedication is what you definitely need, but what do you actually need it for?

Some people do quite well for themselves out of the perceived environment, and thus they must be quite good at doing so. Others do not manage quite so well.

Next to physical violence, disapproval is the most powerful form of attack used against the exposed individual, pity is the next one down, while sympathy is lower still and hits him below the belt—but it takes a lot of practice to perfect.

It is mostly the dull, crass, boorish things in life that tend to single men out for his use as the precise tools of his own intimate destruction; yet it will be these same mundane, ordinary, commonplace matters that the most aware of men routinely single out and pay attention to most diligently.

In an act of judgement the obvious observation is one of the perspective of the observer, and thus is the immediate failing of the opinionated mentality.

The best way to cajole someone into doing something not really in his best interests is to make the apparent seem real by agreeing with his prejudices.

“The funniest thing” is a truth that has been discovered hidden away in front of your eyes within a confounded lie, and yet beforehand you did not even notice its existence: that is “the funniest thing.”

In addition to being uncertain we can also suspect the truth and purposely neglect to confirm it, as knowing that truth for certain makes of our lives an unbearable certainty.

Playing the fool would also make you occasionally wonder what’s going on, but essentially the answer still eludes you.

In “ugly situations” you can do some “ugly things”, especially when “not meaning to.”

In many ways, you can be a very clever man while being clever enough; which can be adequate most of the time, but no more.

It is better to think about why someone asks you a particular question, and then don’t answer it; positively if possible, but negatively where necessary, but silence is preferable.

What is necessary may also be wise, but may not necessarily also be acceptable.

For a clearer view of the world, what you accept is clearly as important as what you deny.

Contained within one lifetime is all that is needed to live it, which includes everything needed to end it as well.

Other people’s opinions of you may affect you in ways that confirm the truth of their opinions of you, but only if you make it so.

A man you don’t trust to jump up and down at the appropriate moment you won’t come anywhere near; although why he would want to behave like that is anyone’s guess.

Acceptance within the adolescent peer group is the touchstone of individual youth culture; know this and you know all about it.

One of the favourite games of groups of young people socializing with each other in bars is to avoid talking to the shy, quiet, socially inexperienced young individuals whom are all alone; probably because they don’t notice their existence, and rightly so.

Sustained bouts of practical jokes lead inevitably to short bursts of violence; but don’t worry, as it’s all just a sustained dominance gambit.

Life can be looked upon as being one big game: rules, players, winners, losers; right up to the time when you begin to lose.

It’s fair to say that you know differently when you’re young than from when you’re old, but by then it’s too late to change your tune.

If you don’t learn that self-reliance gives self-support producing self-esteem, then you perpetuate the natural born victim within yourself.

Sometimes when you’re pushed you don’t want to know; which is often a good way to look at it, and other times not.

Those who use dominance as a means of expression should be stared at, as they don’t like it put like that.

No one has to agree with your stated opinion, as it’s all the better to suppress you with.

Friendliness is the price you pay for being thought “normal” by the rest of the “back-scratching” fraternity.

Oppression is best practiced by the man in the street just going about his lawful, everyday business.

One thing people do a lot after a while is die, and that’s just the naturally repetitive end of “that sort of thing.”

With some people you find that they “can’t die today,” as they’ve got “too much to do tomorrow.” And there’s no particular reason why that shouldn’t be so…

Sometimes, you may actually want the best for someone but have no clue how to give it to him; perhaps, he should really go and find that out for himself.

Short courses in self-knowledge that take up way too much of your valuable time should also be beaten into you for good measure, then, perhaps, you’ll learn something worthwhile about the practical uses of your time.

Commenting on a man’s “classic primate behaviour” is effectively an un-subtle insult to his manhood, even if it’s true; and that it’s true even if to his eyes it doesn’t happen as you say it does; simply because he’s obviously a man, not a monkey, even if he looks quite like one under the bright light of intense scientific scrutiny.

When someone does amoral, dirty, degrading, even perverted, things it must still suggest that there’s a level of acceptability there that could be lived with by their main victim…but it’s only a suggestion.

Why allow yourself to be dictated to by other people’s approach to you, when you can make your own actions define your wishes for yourself? Would it be that you’d just find the need to react so overbearing that you’ve allowed other people’s wishes to control that too?

There’s no point in playing lip-service to something you don’t believe in, without an audience to appreciate it; but then there’s no point telling an audience you’re just playing lip-service to something you don’t believe in, as they’d quite happily “tear your head off” over it, just for being cheeky.

It is appropriate for the common man to know and come to appreciate the simple fact that, when he is caught in an inescapable trap, then as a result of it he will also be left there to die.

Always step back quickly from someone who over-reacts overly much, as you’ll see everybody else nearby do so twice as fast as anyone else who hesitates to do so…

Every once in a while someone comes along who looks at things in a slightly different way from the way others do, they either kill him, lock him up, or, maybe, even give him a medal to “fit the mould”.

You either conform or die, but if you know this and also conform as well then occasionally, and with a little perseverance, you may still be able to “fuck their brains out!”

Most people will develop ideas about other people that are completely unfounded, but they do enjoy having them anyway.

Friendliness for its own sake is no reason to be friendly; however, if not taken too far, it’s a good start for developing a standpoint of mutual aggrandizement between apparent equals.

“A truck!” usually hits people who know how it is and know where they stand when they’re not looking.

The place you no longer live your life is always just around the next corner.

Whether you live or die doesn’t matter; what you do or don’t do, nobody cares one jot. This is true in the first instance, before anything else.

You don’t have to choose stupidity as a career choice: sometimes it can come up to you and take hold without your even noticing that you had a moment of choice.

What you want to know is, “Why do people do certain things in certain situations?” Never guess, always know.

Maybe “for someone to be happy it is necessary for others not to be all the time,” but it is still quite hard to prove except by holding up the whole of human experience to date as a specific example of it.

You’ll find that in most civilized nations you do what you’re told because it’s good for you, and if you don’t do what you’re told they’ll lock you up for it, because it’s good for you too.

Some people don’t like authority, simply because it smacks their bottoms with gusto.

You can sometimes discover that some things can be so sad in this life that you’ve just got to laugh, or else there might be a minor revolution in the making.

You’ll usually find that there is room for every man in his place and a place for every man, and if you step out of your place then there will be no place for a man like you.

Much of life is about taking what’s your due; but let’s not be nasty about it: always smile while you’re about it.

When you come up against it and manage to walk around it, if you wish you might then choose to say that, “There but for the sake of God go I.” As some other poor sods don’t get the chance to say so; so until it’s your turn you may as well say it for them.

Thinking about some things once that don’t actually need thinking about more than once is quite enough, while continuing to do so is a waste of good boozing time.

Wise men have always sought like-minded men to relate to; hence the skinhead was invented to fill the incredibility-gap in the market.

There is a proper value and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act that a misplaced audience cannot clap to.

If you act foolishly for yourself, you immediately become a clown for the audience who go about looking for such entertaining people to gawk at.

When they start to tell you that “you’re still young,” or “you’re not that old,” you’ll wish they told you that a whole lot earlier.

It is a “human need” to know that people will act ruthlessly over the realization of their nearness to death, although they may not care to admit this to you at the time.

If you don’t want to be manipulated you must learn to be manipulative; there is no in between for a flash in the pan of the likes of a man.

If you are disliked you will be attacked in some way, even if you don’t realize the full effectiveness of it.

Always manage to tell the people what they want to hear and you’ll be a popular fellow, along with the rest of the echoing majority.

Living in a crazy world even you could be crazy and not know it; but then, however crazy you are, the standard of sanity is always set by what you would do, not what you wouldn’t.

Sometimes we can put laziness aside in favour of action, and tomorrow is always a good time to start.

If you know why the first time you’re fooled, you won’t be fooled so easily the next time; as then it’ll be easier for you to understand why you’re being fooled next time you’re being fooled once you understand the process better.

When you can manipulate the manipulators so they don’t know you’re doing it, then you’ll be a “right cunt” indeed, along with the rest of the manipulative “little cunts”.

As a matter of policy be sure to give praise to the blameworthy, and blame to the praiseworthy; anyone else who is just a little confused you can tell to “fuck off!”

Self-esteem, self-help, self-motivation, self-reliance and self-fulfilment, all produce selfishness, which is a necessity for living well in a selfish environment.

Familiarity in social circles encourages contempt, and the more familiar you are the more contemptible you can become.

Sometimes, when you’re pushed you don’t want to know, which at times is often a good way to look at it, and at other times it isn’t.

No one farts at dinner parties in High Society simply because that, from a very early age, they’re told in deportment lessons where exactly to put the champagne cork.

There are those who constantly seek for the mysteries of life in their own minds, and then there are those who constantly go down the local pub for a good booze-up instead.

Some people can take only so much truth; so don’t go giving it all up to those sorts of people just because they’re asking for it.

Most people are not that pleasant, and that’s all right, as not many are; they can all go and die some place else, and sooner or later they usually do.

For everyone who is “asking for it,” did he really ask for it all that much, or are you?

All fools must think, on comparison, that they’re smarter than the other fools that have gone before them, but can they prove it?

If someone asks you why you do as you do, then your reasons are all your own.

Sometimes, you may have just gotten the wrong end of the stick: the appreciation of this fact is of paramount importance.

Why let someone else tell you what to do with yourself when you can tell yourself much better than that?

The mind, in a medium of events, should be like a clear mountain stream flowing swiftly over jagged rocks. If it’s not then you should call the plumber.

That person that you engage in conversation who is prepared to be genuinely friendly may, in his eagerness to be friendly, sometimes forget that one of the best (or most subtle) ways for you of gaining information from him is to comment on what he tells you; until, eventually, he finds that he has told you everything you wanted to know and needed to know without asking him one single direct question.

Holding a casual conversation is like riding a bicycle on a blustery day: somebody with excellent balance has always got to be on top of the situation.

You can always try telling someone who asks you how you feel how you really feel; but isn’t that really just being unnecessarily impolite to someone being polite enough not to care too much about you anyway?

Sometimes, you’ve just got to get up and say: “I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, and I can’t possibly be beat.” But I wouldn’t wait too long to do it if I were you.

To be expelled from a group for “nonconformity” is a neat way of getting rid of you, one explainable to you best by acknowledging in yourself your own dislike of the outsider’s strange viewpoint.

To be told to “go away,” somehow or other, you must really have been informed of your rightful place in the world already.

You must learn early on in life to “do as you’re told”, as doing so is an in-built response mechanism that quite possibly saves the human race from itself.

What you don’t particularly feel in yourself much, you can only gawk at in amazement when seen expressed in others.

Just think what it would be like waking up twenty years later, thinking about what you should have done twenty years before…or maybe you already have?

It’s a strange “rule of thumb” of personal behaviour to follow but the truth is that, “If it hurts you should stop doing it.” Although, sometimes, some seem to learn this simple fact way too late, long after it has all been: “been and done.”

To be aware of what you are doing in the next moment (and so also be able to control it through the use of reason) should be the only thing worth doing.

Sometimes, you can confuse the casually malicious comment with boredom and with misunderstanding; but maybe in truth (for some strange reason), there was just not much else worth saying…

When you’re looking everywhere for the truth, anything that even remotely substantiates it will be considered acceptable supporting evidence.

The pursuit of excellence is excellent in itself if it also takes you to some place where you want to go which is worthwhile. But where else would you want to be exactly, for the amount of effort involved?

The “lazy person” is an anomaly within society: he has ceased to present a valid purpose for his continued existence there.

A new choice should not be something that gives you less freedom to act, but that is frequently not an option.

Being “given another chance” suggests you must have been foolish enough to muck up the first one…

In your desiring to wish to “be ashamed for some other person’s actions”, shouldn’t he really rather be ashamed for himself? And thus, if you are doing so, aren’t you just imposing upon his volition for your own reasons? Is that reasonable?

For people not to understand why you act in a certain way around them is also a reason to be cautious.