Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?.

Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them al….

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong..

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themsel….

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—….

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude..

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Rese….

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization..

I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two p….

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsib….

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place..

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent….

In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs….

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them wor….

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish..

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained..

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic….

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy..

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech ….

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do..

The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to impr….