. . . I can hardly wish any man better than he would seriously consider what he does with his time; how and to what ends he employs it; and what returns he makes to God, his neighbor, and himself for it. Will he never have a ledger for this? This is the greatest wisdom and work of life. — William Penn (more…)
Tag: Anthony Blinken
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This is the savagery of, that we only remember from the Nazi crimes in the Holocaust. — Benjamin Netanyahu
Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. — Don DeLillo, White Noise (more…)
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In our country we wish to substitute morality for egotism, probity for honour, principles for conventions, duties for etiquette, the empire of reason for the tyranny of customs, contempt for vice for contempt for misfortune, pride for insolence, the love of honour for the love of money… that is to say, all the virtues and miracles of the Republic, for all the vices and snobbishness of the monarchy. — Maximilien Robespierre, “On Virtue and Terror” (1794) (more…)
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RFK, Jr. Floats Theory that COVID-19 Was Engineered to Spare Chinks and Jews
In a 2024 presidential campaign that threatens to become a flabbier and more senile rerun of the 2020 contest, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is far and away the most intriguing candidate to have tossed his damaged larynx into the ring. Not only is he the most musclebound sexagenarian ever to run for Chief Executive, he seems so unafraid to question the Deep State narrative on so many untouchable topics that one feels compelled to wonder whether he’s a cyborg genetically engineered from scratch by the Powers That Be just to fuck with our heads. (more…)