“The terms of their mutual concessions were these: that Caesar should desert Cicero, Lepidus his brother Paulus, and Anthony, Lucius Caesar, his uncle by his mother’s side. Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Plutarch’s Lives II
In my latest National Post column I deplore Canadian governments’ casual way of denying citizens information even on matters of life and death.
“Milton Friedman: … There’s a phrase written on the entrance to one of the social sciences buildings at the University of Chicago, which is the statement … Rose Friedman: If you can’t measure it, measure it anyway. Milton Friedman: Actually, it was: ‘When you cannot measure something, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfying.’”
An Economic Freedom of the World network meeting in 2001, quoted in Fraser Forum May 2002.
“Standing on the [Atlantic City in the early 1990s] Boardwalk this mild October day, one beheld the Trump Taj Mahal with that odd mixture of fascination and nausea reserved for the great blunders of human endeavor.”
James Howard Kunstler The Geography of Nowhere
“Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. De Maistre says that ‘to know HOW TO WAIT is the great secret of success.’”
Samuel Smiles Self-Help
“The catch-22 of the aesthete is that he lives for a new experience, but all experiences are old as soon as they pass....Wilde wrote, ‘I myself would sacrifice everything for a new experience, and I know there is no such thing as a new experience at all’...”
Joseph Pearce in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7
“that end of the animal not capable of facial expression…”
Michael W. Lewis in Canadian Speeches, “How to Make a Dynamite Speech: Advice from the experts”.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say even more worrying than the WE scandal antics is the public sector insouciantly taking massive paid leaves and giving itself big raises during the private sector pandemic crisis.