If The History Of The 20th Century

I've Heard A Hundred Different Variations Of Instances Of Unadulterated Female Victimhood, Yet The Silence Of The Feminists Is Deafening. Where Two Pieties--feminism And Multi-culturalism--come Into Conflict, The Only Way Of Preserving Both Is An Indecent Silence.

The Idea That Freedom Is Merely The Ability To Act Upon One's Whims Is Surely Very Thin And Hardly Begins To Capture The Complexities Of Human Existence; A Man Whose Appetite Is His Law Strikes Us Not As Liberated But Enslaved.

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—is A Loss, Not A Gain, In True Sophistication. The Secular Substitute—the Belief In The Perfection Of Life On Earth By The Endless Extension Of A Choice Of Pleasures—is Not Merely Callow By Comparison But Much Less Realistic In Its Understanding Of Human Nature.

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 Responsibility For His Situation Somewhere Other Than On His Own Decisions.

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 Themselves, They Lose Once And For All Their Sense Of Probity. To Assent To Obvious Lies Is To Co-operate With Evil, And In Some Small Way To Become Evil Oneself. One's Standing To Resist Anything Is Thus Eroded, And Even Destroyed. A Society Of Emasculated Liars Is Easy To Control.