Terence McKenna Quotes

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.

A fav'rite has no friend!

The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

You be up on everything, other hoes aint ever on it

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down “There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good.

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

All strategy depends on competition.