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Peter Cook

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You realize that suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

 
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People call me an enlightened man — I detest that term — they can't find any other word to describe the way I am functioning. At the same time, I point out that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all. I say that because all my life I've searched and wanted to be an enlightened man, and I discovered that there is no such thing as enlightenment at all, and so the question whether a particular person is enlightened or not doesn't arise. I don't give a hoot for a sixth-century-BC Buddha, let alone all the other claimants we have in our midst. They are a bunch of exploiters, thriving on the gullibility of the people. There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize. That's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize.

 
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People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love, power, fame, revenge. Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

 
Erich Fromm
 

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

 
Edsger W. Dijkstra
 

As you get older you realise that everybody's a little bit f**ked up, but that's ok, because the enlightened people realize this, the people you feel sorry for are those who don't realize this yet.

 
Rob Thomas
 

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

 
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