Cigarette Smoking Man

"The price of freedom is the slavery of others."

"Immortality is the only real pursuit, everything else is distraction."

"We are all cigarettes being slowly consumed."

"The greatest trick was convincing people they had free will."

"Corporations are merely the new form of government."

"Art is propaganda; the only question is whose."

"Music is the language we use to make the irrational seem profound."

"Hope is what keeps the enslaved from rising up."

"The beautiful are given all that the worthy must steal."

"Strength is knowing which battles were meant to be lost."

"Kindness is the mask predators wear to disarm their prey."

"Creativity is simply recombining what's already been stolen."

"Gratitude is the grateful's way of ensuring continued exploitation."

"Perseverance is stupidity refusing to accept defeat."

"Fear is the only reliable teacher in this world."

"Adventure is tourism for people with death wishes."

"Imagination without discipline is just delusion."

"The only history that matters is the one we're about to create."

"Literature is where we confess our darkest desires safely."

"Money is simply power made liquid and transferable."

"Health is a distraction from the real work of living."

"Leadership is the art of making others want what you want."

"Work is the mechanism by which we trade years for currency."

"Dreams are the rehearsals for the disappointments we'll receive."

"Humor is just pain told backwards."

"Peace is the illusion we maintain between atrocities."

"Nature shows us that only the strong deserve to survive."

"Faith is the belief in things we know cannot be true."

"Science is simply technology's younger sibling."

"In the end, we are all just cigarettes in the cosmic ashtray."