Humour is the tool best used to cut down the pompous, and which also teaches the weakened that it is not wise to be overexposed in polite society.

At the risk of being branded a serial liar, duplicity will always be on the agenda for anyone with the intelligence to understand its uses.

Indifference is that force in a man’s life that motivates him to remove mountains of crap from his path, just to see the true nature of the way ahead.

What really needs to be done with people who don’t like you is to make sure they don’t interfere with what you do; which is something that can become the beginnings of a lot of hard work.

On occasion some people can look at you as if you’ve just curdled the milk for their morning coffee, but then what could you have done to make them feel like that if it wasn’t less than nothing?

What you don’t know beforehand, what makes you think you had a chance of knowing about in the first place?

If you give someone payment for nothing he comes to expect it; while if you give him nothing but good advice he’ll expect better next time.

There are always going to be people who don’t like to hear the truth, but that’s probably only because they know it already and don’t like to be reminded of it by the likes of you…

The past, when you go back to look at it, seems different from the present in one specific way: that it’s no longer there to be seen as it once was.

Somebody who has occupied the moral high ground at your expense will also do so with a sense of righteous justification as morally justified by his position over you. But that still doesn’t make him right, only your own failings can do that.

Being overwhelmed is often a simple matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time while doing the wrong things, but what you should always be thinking about is how to survive it now.

Someone else’s troubles are something best avoided, if only to prevent them becoming your own simply on someone else’s instigation.

Most people haven’t got time to waste your time; but if they did they’d be happy to do it all the time, as it’s worthless to them anyway.

Blame should be apportioned liberally to those who truly deserve it, and if there’s any left over it can be allotted to those who don’t.

If the ethics you stand upon is flawed then everything you depend upon will be faulty; then it’s just a question of being able to see those flaws to correct them, preferably before it destroys you.

You can never be told what you need to know, as you can only find that out for yourself.

After being told how to think and what to feel you can still disagree with why you should find that agreeable, even though you do tend to agree with it after all.

Bitterness speaks volumes about bitterness.

It is amazing how much you can fail to understand, especially when you don’t even try.

Sometimes it is more humane to let those who are going to fail, fail; but it is only common decency to tell them exactly why that is straight to their face.

The truth is, you’re usually too late to hearken to the truth; but if you did, you’d have learnt your lesson by now.

The greatest failing of the leadership class once they have tasted the fruits of leadership must be their continued desire to lead...

The dice are always loaded. What the player wants to decide once he has them in his grasp is what sort of game he wants to play with them.

The task that is left half-finished is the one that is always most familiar to us once we choose to leave it utterly alone.

Being told what to do must inevitably have this one attractive result to it: that you won’t have to think of how to do that for yourself too much anymore.

You don’t have to be a philosopher to philosophise; but, sometimes, it must help.

The normal in society conforms to its normalizing force, or else it isn’t normal.

A personal attack is a form of social interaction in a negative manner, and many will always find it much more enjoyable than social interaction in a positive manner.

It always produces much moral satisfaction in society to enable a highly educated young man to become a bonded warehouseman.

It is a general rule of being a social moron that a social moron does not know he is a social moron, but thinks it’s to do with other people’s viewpoints.

If from the start you know that you’re dealing with a bunch of primates in The Monkey House, you won’t be surprised too much by what they get up to at feeding time.

Most people would like to use some type of “frighteners” at some time in their lives, these range from kitchen knives, knuckle dusters, pickaxe handles, machetes, yo-yos and sawn off shot-guns; and some people will use them too, usually without a moment’s hesitation.

Normal people in society will always attack the interests of those strange individuals who insist on looking like Nosferatu, as they don’t like the idea of being bit.

Physically ugly people can really enjoy seeing the beautiful people screw up, as then they can feel that the world is a fairer place because of it, and it is.

Most people will do an inordinate amount of damage to others without even thinking twice about it; which probably just means that they don’t need to.

A sarcastic wit in polite society can occasionally go too far, and so he becomes a sarcastic twit; but then he may not notice it, because everyone’s obviously too polite to say so.

How does someone make an everyday moral decision? He makes it in a poor, slapdash manner, and then, if he survives it, he just does it again.

To grasp the nettle firmly you must also feel its pain at being grasped, although, in doing so, it can still be quite painful.

Vanity must be a very cosy thing when you feel it completely justified by your pleasures.

Make more of nonsense gained through misunderstanding, so you can appreciate making sense even better than it deserves.

The human mind in action can be seen as a series of pre-programmed conditioned responses to change, although most people wouldn’t know why anybody would want to see it that way, especially without a good reason.

If you’re not fighting hard enough today you need to fight harder; if you can’t do that, well, perhaps you should find an easier pace of battle.

Just do as you wish, as nobody else could be bothered enough to do it for you anyway.

The politics of envy keep the Porsches out of the hands of the proletariat, and it’s a good thing too, especially if they’ve just been polished.

Shoeshine boys must swear blue murder about you behind your back, and so long as they do a good job with the polish who gives a damn?

Sometimes, painting the truth black for fun is the only thing that brings out its essential meaning in Technicolor.

Opinions need to be clarified before you can make mincemeat out of them.

If you truly want to “live life to the full before you die,” do you really know what that means, or are you just too afraid to find out?

What you need to combat life is a correct philosophy; once you have achieved this nothing can stop you, except death.

Some people will like to walk about with iron bars in their hands as it’s all the better to hit you with––and you wouldn’t think you’d deserve it would you?

Your peers are always looking to you to say something inanely stupid, so as to mark you out from others; the trick is to not say it to them directly and move more in with the crowd instead.

If you do manage to say something inanely stupid over nothing in particular of relevance you’ll be left wondering why you said it. It’s the thing no one forgets and everyone will mark you by.

It’s always best to run with the crowd, as in this way it’s unlikely that you’ll be singled out before they catch up with someone else trying to be a real individual.

There are some people who, to your determent, will like to pass moral judgement on every single act you make. While there are others who simply don’t give a damn, but think it anyway just to keep their minds ticking over.

People enjoy commenting on what other people are doing with their time, but more often than not it just gets nasty.

Sometimes, you can throw a mangy dog a bone and he will be content to gnaw at it until his teeth wear down.

Memories will increase to haunt the footsteps of the has-beens, and blister the souls of the don’t haves.

Highly intelligent individuals often tend to look down on the plebs for being ignorant, because they are.

Some men, if they fail at something, will immediately go on to do something else; while other men, without finding that sense of direction in themselves, will simply decide to sit down and die of boredom.

In your chosen walk of life you have no automatic right to be told the truth; however, that does not mean you cannot look for it yourself in your spare time.

Many men are flummoxed by the sincerity behind an unreasoned belief—and that’s a good one!

What is an unacceptable insult from a friend is not from a friend, and that’s true. However, having said that, he may just have a warped sense of humour when drunk.

Those who can tell you you’re taking up somebody else’s place may occasionally be right; but the question is are they being helpful or not?

Psychopaths should definitely be avoided, but then how do you know whom to avoid? As mostly it only becomes apparent when it’s too late and you’ve already hit them with a brick.

If you push the limits of your environment on the human level you can get a punch in the face for it, but it’ll probably be worth the effort.

What can always be used on you is moral condemnation by the majority, what you could then use on them then is a pickaxe handle.

Life has a lie hidden deep within it that is inherent to its makeup, while only a gullible fool thinks about this truth of life later.

The great strength of a woman’s character in comparison to a man’s lies in the fact that she has men to laugh at, if not with.

In the social arena, a fine woman has a nose for a dominant male, and a sniff for anyone else.

Where young women are concerned, it is usually quite dangerous for older men to be lechers, but it’s probably more interesting.

Some young women are natural born fuckers, and, come to think of it, they look like it as well.

There is such a thing as a hardened woman, she having no mercy, no doubt, no pity and no shame when she has the goal in sight, and she is as playful as a little kitten.

In polite society people seldom use bad language, but merely think it; however, you can generally tell what they’re thinking by their expression. Strong emotions tell as a facial tick which drums out a vital message in Morse code. However, they won’t usually say a word.

Social interaction is what people do to get what they want out of society, irrespective of whether they actually enjoy it or not. You may ask, “How does a man get a nose for something?” And then, “How can this preposterous proboscis be used to best effect?” Or then again, maybe you won’t.

Greed, sloth, wroth, pride, envy, lust, gluttony––it takes a lot of doing, but you too can master them all, provided that you can realize exactly what they are useful for in society in time to make a difference.

You may on occasion come to ask of someone close to you: “Well, what can I do about such and such a problem?” While if he or she says nothing, then you’re probably just talking to the wrong person entirely.

If you just got the heart and stuffing and fire kicked out of you, well then, if you ever had it you only live once you know.

In a violent conflict it is an amusement that the intelligent man can bleed just as much as any uneducated buffoon; but really, the intelligent man should know better than to put himself in that position.

The most useful, tenacious tool for a person is to be able to step back, and have a derisory opinion of another person and use that insight to form a clearer perception of what is actually happening around him.

If you have the personified characteristics of a tobacco store Indian people will fear you even if you’re harmless; and you know what people do to what they fear.

There are people who don’t get what they want; they are your natural born enemy, even if you’ve never seen them before in your entire life.

Occasionally, people who want to be your friend just say that so they can get to destroy you from the inside. But who are they and what do they look like? That’s the question.

What is unacceptable from a friend is not from a friend, and that’s true. However, having said that, he may just have a warped sense of humour when drunk.

Ageing is a push-me pull-you of an event, in which you’re nearer the age you have just passed, and nearer still to the age you will next be, and yet so near to the present time that you can almost taste it slipping away.

Those who have their whole life ahead of them should not be interfered with by those who haven’t, or, for that matter, anyone else either.

You live, you compete; you die, you don’t.

If you’re very unlucky you may eventually come to think: “What the fuck am I looking at?” And you still won’t know before it’s too late.

Any move that emotionally distresses you is a mistake that you should try to avoid, but it’s still amazing how so many people still don’t understand this one simple fact.

You have a duty to the truth, if only to yourself; after all, who wants to live with your lies?

In the vicious survival tactics of the schoolyard, one good joke amongst good friends always deserves another, possibly even more brutal one.

It is a little recognized fact that those who are servants and those who are waiters aren’t generally those who should know better than that.

If you feel you have any duties to perform towards other people, then you really need to realize what they are first through empathy.

Whenever someone insists on saying, “The greatest satisfaction to me is for people to hear what I am saying.” Then his motives must be suspect.

As a weapon of choice for the intelligent man politeness is all very well, but when it comes time to gut his enemies it still remains ineffective.

Men use mutual praise in the process of male bonding. How much you believe it is up to you, it is necessary only for a man to show it consistently.

Being inoffensive is a matter of good manners, but is something not many intelligent men will manage to achieve with any consistency.