Attacks on greatness rain uselessly on civilization’s outer walls; praise for mediocrity bores from within.
Jul 252014
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You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Jul 102014
The height of a civilization can be judged by its mathematics and its music.
Jul 082014
In a democratic age manners and mores spread from top to bottom, then from bottom back to top.
Jul 042014
Behind the insult “calculating” a whole moral history of humanity lies hidden.
Jun 192014
Anti-Semite: A person whom Jews hate.
Jun 102014
A civilization with elaborate manners is already half-dead.
May 212014
An electronic device that tracked your location at all times used to be a condition of parole.
May 162014
Rudeness is often permissible and sometimes mandatory.
May 072014
A country becomes civilized when its inhabitants can form an orderly queue.
May 062014
Imagination: Anthropomorphism run amok.