Alex Pareene Quotes

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.