“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston Churchill, quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/721301-fear-is-a-reaction-courage-is-a-decision
“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.”
Margaret Thatcher quoted in the Epoch Times email newsletter Nov. 22 2020 (it appears to be a modified form of a quotation “Watch your thoughts; they become words” that I found online attributed to everyone from Lao Tzu to Gandhi to Frank Outlaw but Thatcher really did say the version quoted above)
“The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the pursuit of self-interest, but in the deterioration of the meaning of self-interest; not in the fact that people are too much concerned with their self-interest, but that they are not concerned enough with the interest of their real self; not in the fact that they are too selfish, but that they do not love themselves.”
Erich Fromm Man for Himself
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the mind-numbing vulgarity of Doug Ford’s comments about vaccine availability was just the beginning of their mind-numbing qualities.
In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s boast about being pragmatic and moderate amounts to saying he has no convictions and cannot be counted on by anyone for anything, and trying to make it sound like an achievement. But it’s not.
In my latest National Post column I say John Le Carré’s novels were morally rotten and dangerous in practice.
In my latest National Post column I say the outrageous way the Chinese government speaks about the outrageous things it does is a red flag about the outrageous way it thinks.
“human beings, that is... psychotic apes who want to kill so much that they could not even understand an unconditional prohibition against killing, much less obey it.”
Northrop Frye The Great Code