Against Quotes

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn’t, in reality, do what they did on TV.

I don’t have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions.

I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.