“There was no official response from the Israeli prime minister’s office [to the IJC ruling against the Wall], but a spokesman said unofficially that the court decision would ‘find its place in the garbage can of history.’”
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen July 14, 2004
“by chance, in 1971, I saw a feminist interviewed on the CBC, claiming a ‘right to her own body’ and a ‘right to abortion.’ In law school, I had learned that an unborn child could inherit property and could be the subject of a trust, and suddenly here was someone telling us that the unborn child had no rights and could be disposed of simply because it was inconvenient and unwanted. I was incensed over this injustice. Something had to be done. Shortly afterwards, I founded and became the first president of the Toronto Right to Life Association and was one of the founders of the political arm of the pro-life movement in Canada, Campaign Life Coalition.’”
Gwen Landolt, quoted by Michael Wagner Standing on Guard for Thee: Newly Revised Second Edition
In my latest Epoch Times column, I challenge Pierre Poilievre’s maddeningly vague belligerence on Bill C-63 and just about every other issue.
“He took a Nez approach. As in the opposite of Zen.”
One of mine, from November 20, 2005
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.”
Ann Landers, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 8, 2009
“Human beings are neither souls alone, nor bodies alone, but embodied souls. Since the laws of our bodies are constitutive elements of our being, we don’t diminish ourselves by honoring them – we would alienate ourselves by not honoring them. They aren’t shackles, but real aspects of our embodied personhood – inheritances, not encumbrances; enrichments, not impoverishments; not things to be struggled against, but things to be cherished as gifts.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]
In the Western Standard my latest book review for the Aristotle Foundation praises John Ibbitson’s The Duel while taking issue with the author’s belief that his subjects, John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, were giants.
“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.”
Fred Allen, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)