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Quotations Democracy is essentially a process of compromise between conflicting interests according to mutually agreed rules. -David Pryce-Jones Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions & Justice will be replaced by Pity as the cardinal human virtue, and all fear of retribution will vanish & The New Aristocracy will consist exclusively of hermits, bums and permanent invalids. The Rough Diamond, the Consumptive Whore, the bandit who is good to his mother, the epileptic girl who has a way with animals will be the heroes and heroines of the New Age, when the general, the statesman, and the philosopher have become the butt of every farce and satire. - W.H. Auden I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't. - John McCain It's possible to feel sorry for someone and still want to string him up. - Rudy Giuliani If we demand too much from government, it's partly because the need for the state to defend us increases in proportion to our inability to defend ourselves. - Robert A. Levy To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. - Santayana "Angry men" describes men who happen to be angry. The anger can go away, and they will still be men. But "men of anger" puts the emphasis on "anger" as a permanent thing. It suggests that the essential category is anger and there are men who owe their particular existence to anger. This "X of Y" formulation implies some Platonic category or transcendent entity, of which the individual person is merely a manifestation. Christian men versus men of Christ. American, or American man, as opposed to man of America. - Jonah Goldberg |