Wednesday 12 September 2018

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"Burke's point was simple. The dead, he argued, were the guardians of the unborn. By respecting what they have handed down to us we hold their legacy in trust. This is not to engage in some stultifying ancestor worship: it is to respect what has been set aside for our successors"
Sir Roger Scruton

"Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society." 
Antonio Gramsci


"In the middle of the 20th century, the [Swedish] Social Democrats’ grim social-engineering project was devoted to the promotion of eugenics. During a near 40-year-long programme, between 1934 and 1970, the Swedish government’s eugenics policy resulted
in the sterilisation of between 60,000 and 70,000 women. All in a bid to ‘improve’ Sweden’s ethnic purity. Today the Social Democrat-led coalition has a new crusade: to re-engineer relations between the sexes and, in particular, to rid boys of their masculinity. So, during the election campaign, Gustav Fridolin, Sweden’s education minister, promised that, if re-elected, he would ‘reform’ the preschool curriculum to promote gender neutrality. In particular, Fridolin pledged to stop boys behaving like boys. His distrust of boys is justified on the grounds that there is a connection between the naughty behaviour of boys in preschools and ‘men’s behaviour at their workplaces’." 
Frank Furedi

"What Democrats want on the Supreme Court isn’t judges who will apply the law as it is written: They want super-legislators who will give them what they want: abortion rights, gay marriage, political censorship, etc."
Kevin D. Williamson

"Writing for the Guardian, Ivan Krastev argues that the bloody demise of Yugoslavia helped to precipitate an ideological ‘divorce’ between liberals and nationalists in the new democracies of the former Communist bloc....Krastev argues that “the Yugoslav wars made it impossible for liberals to define liberalism as anything but anti-nationalism”. However, I’m not sure, that “impossible” is quite the right word. Looking back at what happen in Yugoslavia, it strikes me that it was just as possible to conclude that it’s coercive federalism that’s illiberal."
Peter Franklin



"THE VERDICT – John McCain was a deeply flawed, unstable man of limited intelligence and low character. In the field of world affairs and domestic politics alike, he had never had a reasonable or useful idea."
Srdja Trifkovic



Guy Verhofstadt
@guyverhofstadt
Is the Eurozone ready for the next crisis? My answer is no! We need real institutional reform: a full-fledged banking union, a common euro zone budget, a safe euro asset & a European minister of Finance

7 comments:

  1. Not only for every idle word must man give an account, but for every idle silence.
    St. Ambrose

    In Italy, fascists are divided into two categories, fascists and anti-fascists.
    Ennio Flaiano

    Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
    A. L. Rowse

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    1. Very good all three. I love walking which is my only exercise.

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    2. Same here... That and lifting pints... though not at the same time...

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    3. 'Putting his collar studs in in the morning and taking them out in the evening is all the exercise any man needs.' Joseph Chamberlain

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    4. “Never do to-day what you can do to-morrow; you may never have to do it at all.”

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  2. La vérité est si obscurcie en ces temps et le mensonge si établi qu’à moins d’aimer la vérité on ne saurait la reconnaître.
    Blaise Pascal

    The truth is so obscured nowadays and the lie so well established that unless we love the truth we cannot recognize it.

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  3. “In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.”
    ― Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

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