"If I were an octopus, I could hug more people at one time."

A. Nonnie Mouse.

 

"The Judeo-Christian culture that is spurned today will become more appealing as the weaknesses of the secular project become more apparent."

R. R. Reno

"We Can Win" in First Things, March 2015.

 

"Multiculturalism is a managerial ideology. 

It treats people like pawns.

Law firms, universities, and corporations

often brag about their 'diversity'

in the same way they market their services and products."

R. R. Reno

"We Can Win" in First Things, March 2015.

 

"It cannot be supposed that human beings always love liberty.

Free persons must meet the burdens of personal responsibility

and, for some, that responsibility is too onerous."

 Michael Novak

"The Future of Democratic Capitalism" in First Things, July 2015.

 

"For most of history,

humans have been remarkably un-rebellious

under tyranny.  If their simplest appetites are met,

why should they take up irksome responsibility?"

"The Future of Democratic Capitalism" in First Things, July 2015.

 

"Those who find the way to life discover the great secret:

We are given life

in order that we may give it away for those we love."

Stephen Muse

"Spirited Hearts" in Touchstone, May/June 2015.

 

"You could kill the blue jays, if you could hit them, because they rob other birds' nests and make nuisances of themselves, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird because all that mockingbird does is sing his heart out and give us pleasure."

Anthony Esolen

"No Country for Young Children" in Touchstone,

May/June 2015.

 

"The terrible task before us I

s that we have to deal with intelligent idiots,

and so we must be in possession

of the secret revealed to fools and babes."

Anthony Esolen

"The Madness of Reduction" in Touchstone,

May/June 2015.

 

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise,

but he is not half as wise

as the man with no secrets to keep."

Edgar Watson Howe

in Country Town Sayings, 2009.

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