5 quotes
There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
His greatest fear, or nightmare, is not to be thought hip or cool, and if to avoid that terrible fate it means that he has to glamorize evil--well, so be it.
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
If consequences are removed from enough actions, then the very concept of human agency evaporates, life itself becomes meaningless, and is thenceforth a vacuum in which people oscillate between boredom and oblivion.
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)