jweaks’s most recent Quotables

When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Purveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis, not even allow others their judgments… They celebrate “difference,” but they will not allow people truly to be different – to think differently, and to say what they think.

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

...the American impulse is to seek treatment when our real need is for redemption.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living,
for it is being conscious of living.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.