NATO

NATO, said Lord Ismay, speaking of Europe in 1949, was created to "keep the Americans in, the Germans down and the Russians out."

Oil profits

Exxon Mobil does make $1,400 a second in profits -- hear the sharp intakes of breath from liberals with pursed lips -- but pays $4,000 a second in taxes and $15,000 a second in operating costs.

Economics

"Normal people solve crosswords; economists write papers (of which 80 percent are never read)."

Gin & tonic

The bar’s only other patron looked at Mr. Drew and remarked, “I thought you were off the drink.”

“I am,” Mr. Drew replied, “but I have a gin and tonic every now and again. I find it helps me to mind my own business. Would you like one?”

Liberals

Liberals always were the snobs of US politics.

Bonhoeffer on abortion

“Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of
the right to live which God has bestowed on this nascent life. To
raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a
human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact
is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this
nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And
that is nothing but murder.”/

/–Dietrich Bonhoeffer/

GKC The decent inn of death

My friends we will not go again nor ape an ancient rage,
Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,
But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,
And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death.

FLYING INN The Rolling English Road

Adult Desire

The Culture of Adult Desire.

Sperm donation

Rabinowitz' fellow Rabbi Yaakov Ariel blamed sperm donation for encouraging women to marry too late. He also condemned its disruption of the traditional family structure: "There is no such thing as a single-parent family, just like there is no square that is a circle. A family consists of a father, mother, and children."

Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 proclamation that "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today".

Government

There's no problem, it seems, that a government can't "fix" by making it worse.

Tale of a tub

"Swift was always partial to his strikingly original The Tale of a Tub (1704). On reading the work again in later years, he exclaimed 'Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book!'"

Swift & Sam J

Samuel Johnson claimed that A Tale of a Tub was a work of true genius (in contrast to Gulliver's Travels where once one imagines "big people and little people" the rest is easy) and too good to be Jonathan Swift's.

Stupidity

Nathan Glazer remarked on this failure of Higher Education to correct stupidity. It just gives stupidity more words in which to be stupid.

Dorothy Day

"Raw materials went into the factory and came out ennobled and man went in and came out degraded" was a saying of Pope Pius XI.