There Are No Flies On Us

by Theodore Dalrymple (October 2015)

Good will is necessary but not sufficient: a painful lesson in life and one that has often to be relearned because it is so easily and wilfully forgotten. Benevolence can often be useless or even on some occasions harmful and our best intentions may be misunderstood and taken for the opposite.  more>>>

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  1. I have several times heard it said that actual practising Satanists are solely concerned with acquiring power for themselves, and that Satanism is all about power, not worshipping Satan. Then again, there are probably many that are among Satan’s party and don’t know it. Satan himself surely finds all of it helpful – and amusing.

  2. Conquest’s 1st Law: Everyone is a conservative about the subject he knows best.

    The modern outcome is more conservatives than ever, except lacking any common experience among them.

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