Machiavellian

[Machiavelli] holds that religion should have a prominent place in the State, not on the ground of its truth, but as a social cement.

 — Bertrand Russell 'The History Of Western Philosophy' (p493)

Mal Volio

Some people are born-again Christians …
some people have born-again Christians thrust upon them.

Silver Lining

Passé Anagram

Chicago = chic ago

The Church Of Satan

Graffiti

Compost Mentis

News Flash

Lighting The Fuse

What You Get Is What You See

Corporatocracy

Doobie Brothers

To be is to do

 — Socrates

To do is to be

 — Sartre

Do Be Do Be Do

 — Sinatra

Looking After The Bottom Line

Mediated Aristocracy

Acting: the art of insincerity.

Scent Marking

When poor young people do it to property, it is called tagging.
When rich corporations do it to people, it is called branding.

Respecting The Enemy

Reigning Cats & Dogs

Whopping

Obey

The Importance Of Literacy

Mañana

Fits

Almost Prime

The Alignment Of Conservative Ideology & Hostility To Science

Throughout this long deveopment, from 600 BC to the present day, philosophers have been divided into those who wished to tighten social bonds and those who wished to relax them. With this difference, others have been associated. The disciplinarians have advocated some system of dogma, either old or new, and have therefore been compelled to be, in greater or lesser degree, hostile to science, since their dogmas could not be proved empirically. They have almost invariably taught that happiness is not the good, but that ‘nobility’ or ‘heroism’ is to be preferred. They have had a sympathy with irrational parts of human nature, since they have felt reason to be inimical to social cohesion.

 — Bertrand Russell

Two Forms Of Primitivism

Your Time Starts … Now!

The Postmodern Theorist

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
 — Katharine Graham

The End Justifies The Means

Celebrity

"Just-For-Show" Business

Uropæan

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
 ― Peter Ustinov

Grumpy Old Man Anagram