“Attempts must be made to modify the institutions (legal, political, social, economic) with the objective of matching these more closely with the empirical realities of man’s moral limitations.”
James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?
“After my warning order to the company that we would be moving off in a couple of hours I said that I was going to the communion service first. I set off by myself. Half-way there, I looked back to see if anyone else was coming and found to my surprise that virtually the whole company was following me in single file.”
My high school English teacher Stewart Bull, then a major and company commander with the Essex Scottish in Normandy in July 1944 (from his unpublished memoir Happy Warrior: Adventures in the Classroom).
“‘The best lack all conviction...’ something like that. ‘What rough beast... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.’ A creature with bad posture, nightmare of the world.”
Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“in a world without God, there is not room enough for a man.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Joyce Little in an interview in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #7 (June 1999)
“Human rights cannot exist without God.”
Montes de Oca, a Cuban dissident and Pentecostal, in an interview with Jay Nordlinger quoted by Nordlinger in National Review June 11, 2001
“Satan wants you to think that your sin and temptation are unique so you must keep them a secret. The truth is, we’re all in the same boat. We all fight the same temptations, and ‘all of us have sinned.’ Millions have felt what you’re feeling and have faced the same struggles you’re facing right now. The reasons we hide our faults is pride.”
Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life
“‘France may be a predominantly Roman Catholic country, but it is also officially secular, with separation of church and state one of its most sacred tenets.’ – New York Times, April 8”
The Wall St. Journal's OpinionJournal April 8, 2005 [under the very appropriate headline “If It’s Sacred, Doesn’t It Violate Itself?”]
In my latest National Post column I say John Le Carré’s novels were morally rotten and dangerous in practice.