Quotes

I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there’s a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos

-Richard Dawkins

Art takes the trauma and allows you to compartmentalize or even transmute that pain into something else

– Neko Case

Its not a war crime, the first time…

– Nation of Canada, who inspired many Geneva convention laws

Academia values the appearance of truth over actual truth

– Aaron Brown

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

-Paul Valéry

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

-Max Brooks

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

-Lord Acton

A solution shall not another problem create.

-Tom Burtonwood

Never mistake motion for action.

-Ernest Hemingway

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgement is to be a slave, not a free man, It is from this fact that the liberal arts acquire their name

-Mortimer Adler