Castley Rock Quotes & Sayings

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? — Gilles Deleuze

Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass. — Marlon James

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear. — Michael Crichton

Even political systems follow a form of rational tinkering, when people are rational hence take the better option: the Romans got their political system by tinkering, not by "reason." Polybius in his Histories compares the Greek legislator Lycurgus, who constructed his political system while "untaught by adversity," to the more experiential Romans, who, a few centuries later, "have not reached it by any process of reasoning [emphasis mine], but by the discipline of many struggles and troubles, and always choosing the best by the light of the experience gained in disaster. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It seems to me a man doesn't have to be old to do his work well. — Alexandre Dumas

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear. — Ann Goldstein