On The News Forum with Tanya Granic Allen we discussed the nature, purpose and tools of remembrance.
In my latest Epoch Times column I recall and honour all including those who vanished in the long, unending fight for liberty and decency.
“It is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander. The wild theorists of our time are quite unable to wander. When they talk of making new roads, they are only making new ruts. Each of them is necessarily imprisoned in his own curious cosmos.”
G.K. Chesterton's Introduction to “Fancies and Fads” quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“It’s just that nothing seems to be much fun any more, and that’s horrible, for when you’ve said that, there’s nothing more to say.”
Betsy’s internal monologue in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html
“Do not invoke Gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Paul Campos “Is Apathy over God Good?” in Denver Rocky Mountain News September 19, 2003, noted in “Chesterton is Everywhere” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #6 (April/May 2004)
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in J.W. Marriott Jr. and Kathi Ann Brown, The Spirit to Serve: Marriott’s Way.
“The kid, meantime, is frozen, like a rabbit frozen by the eyebeams of a cougar. He knows it is time to split, but he can’t move. He is stricken stiff and fascinated by his own impending destruction.”
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (regarding a hapless young man being tormented by a Hells Angel)