You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.