Here’s another good one:
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well. —Margaret Thatcher
Theodore Dalrymple on political correctness:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. 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. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
The most frightening nine words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” — Ronald Reagan
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” — Thoreau (I might add “or storming the prison”)
“He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?” — (Micah 6:8)
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- Willie Wonka
“Livin’ will kill you if you do it long enough”—from my late Mom.