“The citizens no longer listen to good advice, for the belly has no ears.”
Cato the Elder, quoted in Will Durant Caesar and Christ
“Terminos propriae potestatis egressus in aliam messem perperam mittit falcem suam.”
“*[Ed.: He who wanders outside the boundaries of his own ability wrongly puts his sickle into another’s harvest.]”
2nd of 2 epigrams on the title page of “The Fourth Part of the Institutes” in The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke Volume II [also expressed by Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry Callaghan as “A man’s got to know his limitations”].
“it is low-class not to do one’s best...”
Nika Hazelton in National Review December 11, 1995
“Have you heard this line? ‘Now that we know about brain physiology, it’s obvious that there could be no such thing as free will.’ That’s like saying that the circuitry of a cellphone determines the conversations which takes place on it.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” August 26, 2024 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/telephones-and-free-will].
In my latest Epoch Times column I suggest we could make party platforms less preposterous and ephemeral by insisting that the politicians explain to us what practical obstacles they see to implementing their focus-grouped visions.
“Stereotyping – how like an Anglo.”
Me regarding Quebec reactions to RoC reactions to the Adscam scandal, March 2004.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that while all the other major parties are manifestly unfit to govern for one reason or another, or several, the Conservatives’ chronic lack of the courage of their convictions is not a tactically brilliant meeting of the moment but a potentially fatal ducking of it.
“Francis Bacon's acute methodological dictum: ‘Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.’”
Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition