In my latest Epoch Times column I call the British election more evidence that globalism isn’t working for ordinary people not because of “neoliberalism” but because of a swollen state and chaotic society whose complex rules favour the cosmopolitan elite that designed them.
“Kind of a shame kids have to grow up into people.”
Davy Crockett (played by John Wayne) in The Alamo
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
Sophocles, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“The pessimists who attack the Universe are always under this disadvantage. They have an exhilarating consciousness that they could make the sun and moon better; but they also have the depressing consciousness that they could not make the sun and moon at all.”
G.K. Chesterton in Charles Dickens, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 No. 4 (Jan.-Feb. 2000)
“I’ll bet she’ll be speechless.”
Dave Barry Dave Barry’s Bad Habits (re his decision to get his wife a practical rather than decorative or sentimental gift, specifically a case of paper towels).
“Dare to be naive."
R. Buckminster Fuller, quoted on www.goodreads.com/quotes/37173-dare-to-be-naive
“What I have applied to language, is still more justly applicable to sentiments and manners. The passions, the sources from which these must spring in all their modifications, are generally the same in all ranks and conditions, all countries and ages; and it follows, as a matter of course, that the opinions, habits of thinking, and actions, however influenced by the peculiar state of society, must still, upon the whole, bear a strong resemblance to each other.”
Dedicatory Epistle to Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe
“Nobody really believes in anything anymore, and everyone spends his life in frenzied work and frenzied play so as not to face the fact, not to look into the abyss.”
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind (discussing Nietzsche’s views)