Politics: The fine art of appearing to do, while doing nothing.
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.
Success: The fruitful confluence of favourable circumstances.
No one is above taking bribe. And most certainly no one above giving it. Only the labels, the form and the manner change.
Human kind follows conviction of reason (atheists), of faith (fanatics), of convenience.
Advertising: The art of transferring money from the consumer’s pocket into those of the producer and the advertiser.
When feeling miserable at being wronged, switch on your TV and see the crass injustice and brutality all around. Nature doesn’t give a damn for your feelings, nor did it conspire to hurt you!
Sophisticated “believers” politely undermine other people’s religious beliefs; fanatics do this curtly. Who is more honest?
Be happy your way, with your means. It’s foolish to be unhappy trying to be happy in the ways of other people.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.