"It is no more admirable to have valuable suggestions to make and not put them into circulation than it is to have a valuable coin of the realm and keep it stuffed into a greasy old stocking."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Walking Paradox,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

"You say you want man to be to himself what God has been to man. But what God has been to man is man’s absolute superior, and man cannot be his own superior…. So when you say you want man to be to himself what God has been to man hitherto, you mean you want some men to be to other men what God has been to man. You want some men to be the absolute superiors of others. I assume that you want to be in the former group and not in the latter."

J. Budziszewski in What We Can’t Not Know [part of his Platonic dialogue with a skeptic].

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

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"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