Peter Simple > Quotes

“Once people are sorted into categories and told exactly who and what they are, it becomes much easier to sell them things, to mould their opinions and finally to run their lives for them altogether.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“A successful campaign against commercial pornography and violence would almost certainly involve the victory of a narrow, bigoted kind of puritanism, which might even be addicted to a kind of violence of its own.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“And what makes you so confident that you can exactly assess the world’s mysterious injustice?”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“There is no single word, as far as I know, to describe the man who, himself immune from danger, drives ignorant men to death to satisfy his abstract lust for change.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“By enclosing them in rules and regulations you can make the most abominable outrages appear normal.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“This is a moral as well as an aesthetic question. If natural beauty and historic interest can be seen as mere 'nostalgic figments,' so can moral standards and all the traditional interests of human beings, until we cease to be men and become laboratory data.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“The common factor here is one of the most depressing human attributes, a solemn, self-righteous dullness which positively relishes rules, regulations, arid debates, abstract principles, everything that spreads a rigid metal framework over our poor human lives.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“The price of civilization is repression. The only part of it the Beats reject is the bill.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple

“Snow-white, peerless, “arrogantly pure,” once the chosen disguise of Zeus himself and symbol throughout human history of solitary, self-delighting beauty, the swan is naturally hated beyond reason by scientific farmers, water engineers, pylon-worshippers and statisticians.”
― Peter Simple, Way of the World: The Best of Peter Simple