Boyd Rice Quotes

#1. The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph Needham

#2. People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Boyd Rice

#3. I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

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#4. Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

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#5. I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Boyd Rice

#6. No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

Boyd Rice

#7.
To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

Boyd Rice

#8. What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civilization. The words that make others smile and nod in agreement cause me to recoil.

Boyd Rice

#9. Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Boyd Rice

#10. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.

Zhuangzi

#11. I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

Boyd Rice

#12. She was too smart for his own good.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#13. Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

Paul Hawken

#14. As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything

Nicholas Sparks

#15. Stars of David were plastered to their shirts, and misery was attached to them as if assigned. "Don't forget your misery ... " In some cases, it grew on them like a vine.

Markus Zusak

#16. Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Frederick Lenz

#17. My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Boyd Rice

#18. Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Boyd Rice

#19. went in. The doctor's questions had started him thinking along several lines. Losing to a superior opponent was always a possibility, but one he acknowledged only in an academic sense.

Robert Daniels

#20. I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#21. I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.

Jack Kevorkian

#22. In every part of your body there is poison. In every muscle of your body there is suppressed anger, suppressed sexuality, suppressed greed, jealousy, hatred. Everything is suppressed there. Your body is really diseased. Psychologists

Osho

#23. It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

Tom Coburn

#24. The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

Boyd Rice

#25. I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum.

Boyd Rice

#26. Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

Boyd Rice

#27. Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.

Boyd Rice

#28. There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

Boyd Rice

#29. Laws change so often it seems pointless to keep track of the fiddly ones. 'Don't kill' is the big one. Everything else is moral decoration.

T.W. Brown

#30. I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

Boyd Rice

#31. I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

Boyd Rice

#32. We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged.

Sarah Vowell

#33. Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee