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| 51 | But it seems to me that some activists within the gay-rights movement are interested in something else. Special protection under the law is not good enough. They want to force you to change your way of thinking - twenty-first-century thought police. They want to attack religious beliefs that conflict with their own. | |
| 52 | But now he recalled Kuhn, asserting that scientists who used different paradigms existed in literally different worlds, epistemology being such an integral component of reality. Thus Aristoteleans simply did not see the Galilean pendulum, which to them was a body falling with some difficulty; and in general, scientists debating the relative merits of competing paradigms simply talked right through each other, using the same words to discuss different realities. | |
| 53 | But some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them. | |
| 54 | But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction. | |
| 55 | But there were different types of intelligence, and not all of them were subject to analytic testing. Sax had noticed this fact in his student years: that there were people who would score high on any intelligence test, and were very good at their work, but who at the same time could walk into a room of people and within an hour have many of the occupants of that room laughing at them, or even despising them. | |
| 56 | But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. | |
| 57 | But weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee. | |
| 58 | But you don't get cheers by insulting your audience, nor return engagements either... | |
| 59 | But. Here we are, and here is always the place we must start from. Eh? | |
| 60 | By punishing all who speak against them in even the slightest way... If thou dost let the law prohibit certain words, then evil men will punish folk that they dislike, by claiming they did speak the words prohibited. | |
| 61 | Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. | |
| 62 | Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. | |
| 63 | Common sense and primal instinct tell me that the bad guy should die and the good girl should live. Call me carnal. | |
| 64 | Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. | |
| 65 | Culture masked truth - but there could be only one truth. | |
| 66 | Dalton knew how easily the minds of the people could be manipulated with the right words, especially if people were distracted by other matters and confused with contradictions. | |
| 67 | Denying reality only works as long as enough powerful people see a benefit in playing along. | |
| 68 | Deserve Victory. | |
| 69 | Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it. Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else - coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer. | |
| 70 | Discipline your boy to fend for himself and others as if there were no government, no church, no school, no courts, no therapy, no drugs and no cops to lean on to make things all better. Yeah, raise him to feel as if it is his duty to be the provider, to educate his children, to defend his family and nation, to judge disputes, to offer worship, to give spiritual advice and comfort, and to do all of this without acting like a chick. | |
| 71 | Do not do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it. | |
| 72 | Doctrine by its nature is fallible. When it becomes inflexible, it opens itself to mistakes. You can't live your life by principles alone; you have to have compassion, too. If you don't, the best principles in the world can be corrupted into inhumanity. It's people who matter, not causes. | |
| 73 | Does death invalidate life? No, it defines it, and in so doing creates its value. | |
| 74 | Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. | |
| 75 | Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things. | |
| 76 | Etymology was hard enough without translation thrown into the mix. | |
| 77 | Evelyn tried to control people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious - she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly. | |
| 78 | Even though comfort based on an illusion is itself illusory, it is for a while a deliverance from the anxiety and existential dread that the world today can generate in abundance. | |
| 79 | Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. | |
| 80 | Everyone, to one extent or another, must face life’s trials. There will always be those who try to influence or even dominate us. We cannot allow such things to be an excuse for making the wrong choices. Ultimately, each of us lives our own life and we are responsible for it. | |
| 81 | Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worst. Thus, your unconditional rejection of violence is really nothing more than embracing death as preferable to life. You will achieve what you embrace. | |
| 82 | Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat. | |
| 83 | First Lady Michelle Obama has been at the forefront of this effort, the country's self-anointed First Parent. | |
| 84 | First, it is a mistake to presume to know anyone's internal emotional landscape based on what external emotional signals they seem to be sending. Second, you can apologize for something you have done, but only a fool apologizes for things that other people have done, for he has no authority to do that. | |
| 85 | Folks are always talking about how busy a bee is, shows they never really watched a bee. A bee makes so much fuss with all his perambulating around that folks think they're doing a sight of work, but believe me, I've watched bees by the hour and I can tell you all that buzzing is a big fraud. The bees I've watched always buzzed in the sunniest places around the best-smelling flowers, just loafing their heads off lusting around in the play of sun and shadow at the swamp's edge. Busy? Not so's you could notice. | |
| 86 | For this 'honor' that thou dost hold dear, this 'face' thou speakest of , is most truly but thine own opinion of thyself. We commonly suppose that 'tis what others think of us, but 'tis not so. 'Tis simply that most of us have so little regard for ourselves, that we believe others opinions of us to be more important than our own. Therefore have we the need to save our countenances - our 'faces,' which term means only what others see of us. Yet we know that only by what they say they think of us - so our 'faces,' when all is truly said, are others' opinions of us. We feel we must demand others' respect, or we cannot respect ourselves. | |
| 87 | For, you see, the most important truths can always withstand a little examination. | |
| 88 | Freedom must be won, but then it has to be guarded... | |
| 89 | From all I have seen and heard, a wedding is not the magic charm we think it. A priest's blessing, and an exchange of rings, will not make a wild boy instantly into a prudent husband, nor transform a flirtatious lass at once into a demure and loyal wife. And, assuredly, a wedding will not make two folk who are unsuited to fall in Iove. | |
| 90 | From what I've seen in life, a man who preaches a better way at the cost of the truth is a man who wants nothing more than for himself to be the master and you the slave. | |
| 91 | Generosity is fine, if it's by your free choice, but a belief in the primacy of self-sacrifice as a moral requisite is nothing less than the sanctioning of slavery. Those who tell you that it is your responsibility and duty to sacrifice are trying to blind you to the chains they are slipping around your neck. | |
| 92 | Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. | |
| 93 | Good. Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. | |
| 94 | Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours. | |
| 95 | Granny subsided into unaccustomed, troubled silence, and tried to listen to the prologue. The theater worried her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn't belong to her, one that wasn't in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn't belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn't know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better. | |
| 96 | Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge. | |
| 97 | He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod. | |
| 98 | He didn't even understand why there needed to be new laws all the time. After all, right was right, and wrong was wrong. | |
| 99 | He is a worthy enemy - but that's just to say, he would not be worthy an he were not able; but he would not be an enemy were he not evil. | |
| 100 | Heck, our kids aren't even safe in places where, in my day (I'm 48), safety was 99.9% given. What places am I referring to? I'm talking about schools and churches. Those two institutions, especially our schools, have pretty much gone down the crapper as far as being a safe haven for our kids because gun-wielding cretins have figured out that gun-free zones are opportunity-rich environments for them to carry out their dirty deeds. | |