"Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."
Nigel Dennis, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Jan. 19, 2006
"The history of the earth! Doth it present anything but crimes of the most heinous nature, committed from one end of the world to the other?"
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. Letters from an American Farmer [prompted by American slavery].
"Dissidents understood the power of freedom because it had already transformed our own lives. It liberated us the day we stopped living in a world where ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’ were, like everything else, the property of the State. And for the most part, this liberation did not stop when we were sentenced to prison."
Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer The Case for Democracy
In my latest National Post column I say the Trinity Western law school ruling shows that we no longer think it's strange to enforce conformity in the name of diversity.
"The most important sort of knowledge is to know which things are worth knowing."
G.K. Chesterton in Sign April 1932, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 17 #2-3 (Nov.-Dec. .2013)