"The obscurest epoch is today."

"Robert Louis Stevenson in Across the Plains" quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail March 27, 2000.

"today, detached from the concept of a free society, human rights have no reference point. The concept of rights has come to mean sympathy for the poor, the weak, and the suffering. To be sure, this sympathy is essential if we want to live in moral societies and should be encouraged and cultivated by families, schools, and governments. Yet without moral clarity, sympathy can also be placed in the service of evil. A world without clarity... is a world in which the only democracy in the Middle East is perceived as the greatest violator of human rights in the world....  a world in which, in the name of peace, pacifists in the West marched alongside emissaries of the KGB who, posing as peace activists, sought to undermine the efforts of a free world to defend itself against Soviet aggression.... It is a world in which those who dream of peace are willing to place a wolf and a lamb in the same cage and hope for the best – again and again."

“Preface” in Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer The Case for Democracy

In my latest National Post column I say French President Emmanuel Macron's expressed wish to govern like Jupiter would have doomed him in the English-speaking world... and should have in France or anywhere else too.

"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."

Irving Layton, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail August 8, 2001

"Every family should have at least three children. Then, if one is a genius, the other two can support him."

George Coote, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail May 10, 2001.

"'Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.’ – Bertrand Russell, atheist"

2nd header quotation in Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life Chapter 1

"In caveman days, every woman had a fur coat, every man a private club, and backyard barbeques were mammoth."

D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”