Category Archives: Sayings

“The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius.” -Antoine de Rivarol

“Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies it powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.” -Thomas Szasz (1974)

A feigned care for the poor has brought as much suffering on the world as poverty itself. It is not a sin to be poor, but it is a sin to pretend to pity the poor, and the wages of sin is death.

“It is only “silly” questions that can enlighten us; for behind whatever seems obvious lurks something is not.” -Denis De Rougemont, Love in the Western World

When common sense is against the law, it is common sense to break the law.

The less a man has to live for, the more desperately he clings to his life; the shallowness of Modernity has crowned medicine queen of the sciences.

At sixteen, a child wants to please his parents, but not obey them.

The man who only praises his son will be the only man who praises his son.

There is more hope for a wildly disobedient boy whose parents admit it than for a mildly disobedient boy whose parents deny it. If a mother makes excuses for her son, there is a little hope for him; if his father makes excuses for him, there is none.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”― Voltaire