“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which other thoughts are drained.”
“Robert Bloch, the screenwriter of the movie Psycho” quoted by John Ivison in National Post June 19, 2004
“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. This is because there is nothing that can take its place.”
“That the weak overcomes the strong/ And the submissive overcomes the hard/ Everyone in the world knows yet no one can put/ This knowledge into practice.”
Lao Tzu II.LXXVIII.186-187
“You can no more evade in politics the question, What is true in religion? than you can do sums right without prejudice to a difference of opinion upon the multiplication table.”
James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity
“Does your garage door put the ugh in ugly?”
Crawford Door Sales ad on NBC 14/4/90
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the idea of national strategies where governments reform citizens is bad, including if one targets “Islamophobia”.
“There are four varieties in society: the lovers, the ambitious, observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.”
“Hippolyte Taine French critic and historian (1828-93)” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Feb. 20, 2013
In my latest National Post column I say with increasing rates of vaccination and between waves, we should have a relaxed and rational discussion about when, if and why we’d go into another lockdown.
“He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.”
Edmund Burke in his “Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol”, cited in Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics & Belief