I care not for the girdings of superstition, for superstition is the bitter enemy of all true knowledge and true morality. Yes; it has come to this! Men who openly confess that they can form no idea of God, and only know Him through created things, of which they know not the causes, can unblushingly accuse philosophers of Atheism.
--Benedict

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
--Edgar Wallace

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing ( Read more... )

There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with ( Read more... )

The man who threw his shoes at President Bush is being hailed as a hero in Iraq. In fact, when he dies, he'll be greeted in heaven by 72 podiatrists.
--Conan O'Brien

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Rick fucking Warren?!?Oh, Obama. And you were on such a roll ( Read more... )

John R. Bolton, who was one of Mr. Bush’s ambassadors at the United Nations, would not discuss Ms. Rice’s selection, but said it was unwise to elevate the position to the cabinet again ( Read more... )

"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."
--Wallace Stevens

(Probably more right than wrong!)

"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
--Samuel Adams

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The LegacyOh, wow. Harsh, but definitely ( Read more... )

"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."
--George Santayana

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Ministers to Defy I.R.S. by Endorsing CandidatesThis would be really interesting, if it weren't actually a shallow attempt to overturn a law that stands ( Read more... )

"The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down ( Read more... )

Madness and Shame

... Very few voters are aware of Mr. Addington’s existence, much less what he stands for. But he was the legal linchpin of the administration’s Marquis de Sade approach to battling terrorism. In the view of Mr. Addington and his acolytes, anything and everything that the president authorized in the fight against terror - ( Read more... )