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.