“How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God. Only a godless ideology could plan and carry out the extermination of a whole people."
John Paul II at Yad Vashem, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things October 2000
In my latest Loonie Politics column I praise John McCain's willingness to rock the boat politically even on some issues where I think he was wrong, because we need more mavericks and less partisanship.
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
Konrad Adenauer, quoted at www.brainyquote.com/quotes/konrad_adenauer_121389
“I imagine that every teenager today has heard of Stalingrad and Alamein and D-Day, but I wonder how many know the name of Imphal, that ‘Flower on Lofty Heights’ where Japan suffered the greatest catastrophe in its military history. There’s no reason why they should; it was a long way away.”
George Macdonald Fraser Quartered Safe Out Here
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say there's nothing wrong with what the Trudeau administration tweeted about Saudi repression; it wasn't some utopian overreach to remake the world, just a statement in favour of the Canadian value of freedom.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
In my latest National Post column I worry about Boris Johnson being threatened with a "diversity course" to make him like the burka.