“No man with any sense assumes that a woman’s words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.”
Archie Goodwin’s internal monologue in Rex Stout The Mother Hunt
“In the famous exchange of letters (in Latin) between C.S. Lewis and St. Giovanni Calabria, Lewis makes a prescient remark: ‘They err who say: “The world is turning pagan again.” Would that it were! The truth is, we are falling into a much worse state. Post-Christian man is not the same as pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as a virgin from a widow.’”
Ted Janiszewski in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“The same age which tends to economic slavery tends to social anarchy; and especially to sexual anarchy. So long as men can be driven in droves like sheep, they can be as promiscuous as sheep.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly March 9, 1929, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say at their national convention the federal Liberals should have tried to sell themselves to the nation as older and wiser not conceited and reckless.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say a suggestion by a university psychologist, somewhat surprisingly, helps illuminate the frustrating way liberals and conservatives think, talk and shout past one another.
“The product of over-civilisation is shamelessness.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 2, 1908, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (9-10/22)
“A boy plays at being a soldier or at being a brigand, but have you ever known a boy who played at being a lawyer? A child does not want self-government. A child wants to have a good time; and it is our business, who know how short but how creative is his time in Eden, to give him a good time. But you cannot have a good time if you have self-government. Personal self-government is a most horrible nuisance. Public self-government is worse.”
G.K. Chesterton “Childish Talk About Children” reprinted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022) [yes it’s a lot of Chesterton this week; I can’t help it that he was so wise and so eloquent].
“Don’t ask why children need to see drag queens; Ask yourself why drag queens want an audience of children!”
Emailed by a friend July 30, 2022 as part of an email roundup, without attribution.