Liberty, For What? Why Polarization is Downstream of Pluralism
E pluribus unum?
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre
“The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret.”
– Jacques de Molay
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Why feelings matter more than facts in academia.
“Lord, you gave him great talent, and he used it for your glory. You gave him great suffering, and he accepted it for your blessing…”
– Abbé Fontaine
“Our major secret weapon is to deprive you of an enemy.”
– Georgi Arbatov
“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
– William Shakespeare
“The importance of these centuries…is not to be found in the external order they attempted to create, but in the internal change they brought about in the soul of Western man—a change which can never be entirely undone expect by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself.”
– Christopher Dawson
“For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.”
– Pericles, “Funeral Oration”