Quotations

"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it." Hunter S. Thompson

"To be clear, there are millions of intense Christians who vote Republican to defend the creed. Just not enough to elect a president. For that, it is an arithmetical must to bolt on the kind of Trump fan that I am likelier to encounter. These characters react as I do upon seeing an ancient and sublime place of worship (“What a darling Sofitel it would make”) and aren’t just liberal so much as outright incurious about people’s domestic doings. Their grievance isn’t with the cultural settlement of the 1960s, but with that of the 2000s, if that means woke-ism, trade and a foreign-born population above 10 per cent of the total." Janan Gamesh, star writer at the Financial Times

"It’s a truism that always and everywhere, social norms are enforced by high-status women. What’s going on is a breakdown of that, and it’s bad." Arthur Bloom

"As a general rule, Americans think about the fall of the Republic, while Europeans about the fall of the Empire." Ed West