Every great lie depends on narrative, the great meta-lie.
Proper service demands the extinction of personality, the entire subjugation of oneself to another’s needs and desires. In America, where this runs counter to the national religion, it cannot be had at any price.
The man who mocks what we hold dear we call a cynic, though he may hold dear what we mock.
We often become stupid by fear of looking so.
Art, like science, may be regarded by the practitioner as a collective body of work to which he hopes to make a small contribution.
The purpose of “inclusive” language is to exclude whoever refuses or cannot be bothered to use it.
We let ideas rattle around in our heads, and call it thinking.
Talk of rights is usually cant; talk of human rights always is.
You get to know someone, and learn to like him. Then you discover he holds opinions you find noxious, and you say, “I never knew he was like that.” He isn’t. He’s the same man you knew before he had opinions.
Judicial restraint is legislative license.