“Satire depends on sanity, and on contrast with insanity; that is why there is very little satire left.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly July 16, 1927 quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that instead of redoubling our fury at our partisan foes in the wake of a very narrow brush with disastrous chaos, we might all take a minute to improve the tone of our own thoughts and words.
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
In my opening remarks to the 2024 Economic Education Association of Alberta “Freedom Talk” on “The Decline of Western Civilization: Our Fate or Our Choice?” in Red Deer, I said the fight to save Western civilization is fought first and foremost on the field of ideas.
“try easier” instead of trying to “throw the ball through a car wash and not get wet”
An announcer, I think Rance Mulliniks, during the Toronto Blue Jays-Boston Red Sox game Sept. 12, 2005 [approving of what the pitcher was doing, throwing a lot of breaking stuff then getting the batters to pop up on a high fastball]
In my closing remarks to the 2024 Economic Education Association of Alberta “Freedom Talk” conference in Red Deer on “The Decline of Western Civilization: Our Fate or Our Choice?” I urged people to go forth with joyful hope.
“The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man’s moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.”
Eugene Genovese Roll Jordan Roll [before he became a Christian, obviously].
“he was using platitudes to fight stereotypes on behalf of a cliché.”
David Klinghoffer on Edward Zwick, director of The Siege, in National Review Dec. 7, 1998