When Every Benefit Received Is A Right,

There Is Nothing An Addict Likes More, Or That Serves As Better Pretext For Continuing His Present Way Of Life, Than To Place The Weight Of Responsibility For His Situation Somewhere Other Than On His Own Decisions.

Obesity Is The Result Of A Loss Of Self-control. Indeed, Loss Of Self-control Might Be Said To Be The Defining Social (or Anti-social) Characteristic Of Our Age: Public Drunkenness, Excessive Gambling, Promiscuity And Common-or-garden Rudeness Are All Examples Of Our Collective Loss Of Self-control.

Nonjudgmentalism Is Not Really Nonjudgmental. It Is The Judgment That . . . Everything Is The Same, Nothing Is Better. This Is As Barbaric And Untruthful A Doctrine As Has Yet Emerged From The Fertile Mind Of Man.

Life Is A Biography, Not A Series Of Disconnected Moments, More Or Less Pleasurable But Increasingly Tedious And Unsatisfying Unless One Imposes A Purposive Pattern Upon Them.

Orders Can Be Benign Or Malign, But The Habit Of Obeying Them Can Become Ingrained.