In my latest National Post column I say the Prime Minister's insistence on the Newspeak term "peoplekind" was neither a joke nor innocent.

In some sense the French Revolution was “the black desperate battle of Men against their whole Condition and Environment, - a battle, alas, withal, against the Sin and Darkness that was in themselves as in others: this is the Reign of Terror."

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he does not know more."

William Cowper

"If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God) you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin."

T.S. Eliot "The Idea of a Christian Society" quoted in Russell Kirk The Politics of Prudence 

In my latest piece in C2C Journal I say that while "legislating morality" has a distinctly Victorian and reactionary feel we actually do it all the time, often on "progressive" grounds, so we need to think clearly about why and how we do it.

"Knowledge comes by taking things apart. But wisdom comes by putting things together."

John A. Morrison, quoted as an "Apercus du jour” in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 20, 2008

“The main thing is never to act against your conscience, not to put your signature on documents you do not believe in, not to vote for those who you think should not be elected, not to approve decisions, not to applaud, not to pass on lies, not to broadcast them, not to write them, not to put them down on paper, not to pretend … Let your creed be 'Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.'"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "Live not by the Lie" quoted by Ian Hunter in National Post August 5, 2008