“A cannibal is someone who gets fed up with people.”

#9 in “Gilbert’s Top 10 More Bad Puns” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)

In my latest National Post column I say, as a very reluctant interventionist, that the time has come to oust Venezuela’s dictator.

“Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race.”

Start of Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) The History of Freedom

“Her choice [that of the mother/title character in the novel Sophie's Choice] is plainly evil; for the sake of a better result, she has united herself with the sin of the murderer. And in the end the other child dies too. But how could she choose otherwise, if she had no faith in God?”

J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know

“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy