“He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.”
Edmund Burke in his “Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol”, cited in Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics & Belief
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the difficulty people have condemning calls for churches to burn is a worrying sign of our rapid descent into a vindictive and pitiless neopagan mindset.
“Did someone already make the point that if faith in God is absurd, faith in man is pitiful?”
Again I quote myself, a thought prompted on August 14, 2001 by forced abortions in the People’s Republic of China
“Everyone is in the best seat.”
John Cage quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“If man does find a solution to world peace, it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
George Marshall, quoted in Kenneth Adelman The Great Universal Embrace
“A very honest atheist with whom I once debated made use of the expression, ‘Men have only been kept in slavery by the fear of hell.’ As I pointed out to him, if he had said that men had only been freed from slavery by the fear of hell, he would at least have been referring to an unquestionable historical fact.”
G.K. Chesterton in St. Francis of Assisi, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 6 (April/May 2001)
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
Søren Kierkegaard, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen To Go
“It is often observed that it is human nature to dislike those whom we have injured…”
David Frum Dead Right