“As George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, once said, ‘the best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.’”
Chris Kilford in Ottawa Citizen Jan. 12, 2015
In my latest National Post column I say one of the most glaring flaws in the 1982 Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was the failure even to attempt to put checks and balances on the judiciary.
“human behaviour ultimately derives from human volition – tastes, attitudes, values, and so on – and these aspects of volition in turn are either formed entirely by choices or are the product of biological or social processes that we cannot or will not change.... The one thing we cannot easily do, if we can do it at all, is change, by plan and systematically, the minds of men.”
James Q. Wilson Thinking About Crime
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Charter of Rights and Freedoms doesn’t protect freedom, it protects our right to impose on other people, because it was designed by utilitarians to override natural law and it does.
“Solzhenitsyn recalls a fellow prisoner’s comment that ‘cruelty is invariably accompanied by sentimentality.)”
Dan Gardner in Ottawa Citizen “Citizen’s Weekly” April 29, 2001
“Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
James Garfield in the House of Representatives June 1874 (https://libquotes.com/james-a-garfield/quote/lbe6w7b)
“It is a strange thing how the pain of seeing the suffering of those we love will sometimes make us add to their suffering by being cross with them. This comes of not having faith enough in God, and shows how necessary this faith is, for when we lose it, we lose even the kindness which alone can soothe the suffering.”
George MacDonald At the Back of the North Wind
“A classic vacuous nemesis of the Fifties was the young, progressive Dean of women who was brought in to replace the septuagenarian, traditional dean of women… who had all the give-and-take of Torquemada…”
Florence King in National Review July 12, 1999