In my latest Looniepolitics column I advise the Ontario Tories not to be too clever by half and too stupid for words in choosing a new leader or an electoral platform.
"But even regarding History as the butcher's block at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History
In my latest National Post column I say we must be able to show compassion for victims of sexual abuse and of false accusation, and that compassion for women does not exclude compassion for men or vice versa.
"central to all economic analysis and instruction is the question of what determines the prices that are paid for goods and for services rendered."
John Kenneth Galbraith Economics in Perspective
Galbraith EIP
"Knowledge comes by taking things apart. But wisdom comes by putting things together."
John A. Morrison, quoted as an "Apercus du jour” in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 20, 2008
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”
“If ever God is banished from the world so that even His image is eradicated from the human mind, we will cease to be human and become merely very clever animals—and our ultimate fate will be too horrible to contemplate."
Father Karl Rahner, SJ, quoted by Paul Johnson in “The human race: success or failure?” in The New Criterion Vol. 25 (Nov. 2006)