“Deja moo: The feeling that you’ve heard this bull before.”
“Gilbert Magazine’s Top 15 Yet More Internet Taglines” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6 (and yes, it bends my rule against vulgarity but I find it sufficiently funny)
“All habits are bad habits.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Joseph Connors in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 # 8 (July-August 1999)
“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)