If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.
The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it. - Bernard Levin
The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
- Bernard Levin
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods. - Bernard Levin
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. - Bernard Levin
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather. - Bernard Levin
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. - Bernard Levin
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result. - Bernard Levin
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will… - Bernard Levin
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will…
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a w… - Bernard Levin
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a w…
Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, l… - Bernard Levin
Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, l…
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