“If man does find a solution to world peace, it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
George Marshall, quoted in Kenneth Adelman The Great Universal Embrace
“It is not a universal advantage in situations of conflict to be inalienably and manifestly rational in decision and motivation.”
2005 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Thomas Schelling quoted in National Post October 11, 2005
In The Interim I reflect on classic books on the vital topic of citizenship only to realize I can’t think of any.
“A very honest atheist with whom I once debated made use of the expression, ‘Men have only been kept in slavery by the fear of hell.’ As I pointed out to him, if he had said that men had only been freed from slavery by the fear of hell, he would at least have been referring to an unquestionable historical fact.”
G.K. Chesterton in St. Francis of Assisi, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 6 (April/May 2001)
On July 7 I discussed the possibility of a sudden federal election, the new Governor General and more on Global News Radio 640 with Arlene Bynon and John Mraz.
“It is often observed that it is human nature to dislike those whom we have injured…”
David Frum Dead Right
In my latest Epoch Times column I say a smashed statue is a sadly fitting monument to a society that lets mobs trample over debate and voting to smash memorials because they can’t tell Queen Victoria from Hitler.
“Napoleon had everything men usually crave – glory, power, riches – yet he said at St Helena: ‘I have never known six happy days in my life’; while Helen Keller – blind, deaf, dumb – declared, ‘I have found life so beautiful.’ If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that ‘Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living