"Knowledge comes by taking things apart. But wisdom comes by putting things together."
John A. Morrison, quoted as an "Apercus du jour” in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail May 20, 2008
“The main thing is never to act against your conscience, not to put your signature on documents you do not believe in, not to vote for those who you think should not be elected, not to approve decisions, not to applaud, not to pass on lies, not to broadcast them, not to write them, not to put them down on paper, not to pretend … Let your creed be 'Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me.'"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "Live not by the Lie" quoted by Ian Hunter in National Post August 5, 2008
"If you put new ideas before the eyes of fools/ They’ll think you foolish and worthless into the bargain"
Medea in Euripedes Medea
"It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history."
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)
In my latest National Post column I argue that Justin Trudeau is every bit as postmodern and post-truth as Donald Trump.
"The classical adage Historia est magistra vitae – ‘History is the teacher of life’...”
Richard Pipes in National Review January 24, 2000
"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."
George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us
"Complexity is the last refuge of the scoundrel."
John Gross of the New York Times, quoted by John O'Sullivan in National Review December 25, 1995 (with specific reference to inherent tendency of bad theories to be complex)