“To do nothing is in everyone’s power.”
Samuel Johnson widely quoted online (for instance at https://www.azquotes.com/quote/828498)
“Only the concept of eternity could explain the ambiguity between a loving God and the Holocaust. For if life does not end with the grave, we should pity the prison guard, not his victim.”
Edward F. Halpin who “was at Buchenwald with Patton’s Third Army”, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things March 2001
“a man who is in so far over his head there’s eel-grass in his hair.”
Denny Boyd in British Columbia Review June 19, 1995
My final appearance on the show so thanks to all who listened, to Anthony for being a great host, and to all those behind the scenes who made it happen.
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that a real-time parliamentary hearing into the government’s pandemic response is necessary on medical and constitutional grounds… and is actually better for the Liberals, even if some of it is embarrassing, than blundering ahead in darkness.
“leisure: a word that means three totally different things: 1. being allowed to do something, 2. being allowed to do anything, 3. being allowed to do nothing.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 23, 1927, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (10-11/03)
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the Earth.”
John Steinbeck, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8 2004
In the National Post I remember as always those who gave all their tomorrows for my today, and try to treat it as the precious gift that it is.