"It is lack of confidence more than anything else that kills civilization." Sir Kenneth Clark, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail February 6, 2007
In my latest National Post column I urge social democrats to talk to real people about real things, and listen to them. Things like that government isn't working very well.
"At the non-stop treason trial which is history, Kierkegaard stands convicted of working as an undercover agent for God." Malcolm Muggeridge A Third Testament (1976) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.
In my latest National Post column I say don't let the government wear us down so we accept military procurement that takes forever to buy almost nothing.
"Progress is the protection of all oppressions to-day; because progress tells us we are better than our fathers, even where conscience tells us we are worse than ourselves." G.K. Chesterton in New Witness July 19, 1918, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)
"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory." F.W. Faber
"There was but one rule [for inclusion in his book]. 'Did the country or the person in question produce a new idea or perform an original act without which the history of the entire human race would have been different?' It was not a question of personal taste. It was a matter of cool, almost mathematical judgement. No race ever played a more picturesque rôle in history than the Mongolians, and no race, from the point of view of achievement or intelligent progress, was of less value to the rest of mankind." Hendrik van Loon The Story of Mankind