by E.O. | Dec 2, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the process by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being...
by E.O. | Dec 1, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“There’s even a religious aspect to detailed examination of the outdoors. The universe, on close inspection, seems hardly to have been an accident. Or, if it is an accident, it’s certainly a complexly ordered one—as if you dropped mushrooms, ham, truffles, raw eggs,...
by E.O. | Nov 30, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“When a thing defies physical law, there’s usually politics involved. Drought, floods, crop failures, and insect pests have played a part in some modern famines, but none of these famines was caused by nature. The Chinese famine of 1958-61, the worst famine in...
by E.O. | Nov 29, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“Modernity’s highest ideal—its special understanding of personal autonomy—requires us to place our trust in an original absence underlying all of reality, a fertile void in which all things are possible, from which arises no impediment to our wills, and before which...
by E.O. | Nov 28, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“A state that does not aim to protect innocent life from lethal violence should be considered illegitimate.” – Anderson/DeSanctis
by E.O. | Nov 27, 2024 | Quotes and Quips
“The trendiest progressive solution to violence was to disband police forces and then, instead, we would send groups of unarmed black men to defuse violent situations in our most dangerous neighborhoods. They wouldn’t have a union. They wouldn’t have pensions. They...
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