Words Worth Noting - October 4, 2026

“Yet if this was the kind of talk that would see [the Marquis de] Sade spent his final years consigned to a lunatic asylum, the icy pitilessness of his gaze was not insanity. More clearly than many enthusiasts for enlightenment cared to recognize, he could see that the existence of human rights was no more provable than the existence of God.”

Tom Holland Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World.