“The human psyche and human nature are artful dodgers.”
Sen. Anne Cools in a speech in the Senate March 13, 2001, quoted in Hansard Vol. 139
“Ride on the nightmare, if you prefer such horseflesh; only do not let the nightmare ride on you.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 15, 2009, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #6 (4-5/07)
“In 1945... the vaunted thousand-year rule of the Third Reich came to a brutal end. Great cities lay in ruins. Millions were exterminated; millions more were displaced and starving. A demon in human flesh had put the whole apparatus of the modern state to work to eradicate God’s people. The last victim of every murderous demon is its human host, so staying true to Satanic form, in the final days of war, Hitler and his leading Nazi henchman pulled the trigger on their own demise.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
Fyodor Dostyevsky, quoted by Owen Lippert in Fraser Forum July 2000
On March 27 in a Christian Heritage Party webinar talk “Magna Lockdown: Canadian Liberty in a Medical Crisis” I argued that liberty isn’t a frivolous luxury or vague abstract ideal but a vital practical tool for creating and maintaining good government in crises as well as quiet times.
In my latest National Post column I say it’s fatuous to ask companies to stay out of politics; what they need to do, being collections of people, is seek to act morally in public as in private affairs.
“When was the last time you heard a soul-stirring message on the fear of the LORD? We prefer God to be soft and cuddly, so we have defanged and de-clawed the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. We have relegated the God of fearful judgment to those unread pages of the Old Testament. Surely, we reason, God has reformed his ways. But my God is still an awesome God.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“There is a game of April Fool that’s played behind its door,/ Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more”.
G.K. Chesterton “The Aristocrat” with respect to the Devil’s “little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away)”