46 quotes found
“Enough anecdotes make a pattern.”
“Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.”
“Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.”
“Politics is always driven by competing worries.”
“Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.”
“There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.”
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”
“In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris”
“Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.”
“There may be arrogance and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”
“People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.”
“Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.”
“Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.”
“In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos ...”
“Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.”
“In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.”
“A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is and ought to be strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the f...”
“From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.”
“Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts children into social artifacts called citiz...”
“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”
“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.”
“When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of ap...”
“He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.”
“The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.”
