Good leaders come together to solve problems in order to make a peaceful coexistence, but just a single soul can become the leathery meat in the soup.

To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you’re CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you.

Power,’ as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, ‘enters the picture in two ways’: the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, ‘deviants are those who...

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and ‘correspondences’, rather than to realistically depict the world. … the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity....

against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.