"How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before." -Mark Twain

Dave Chappelle made a special and trans activists freaked out. It's sad what comedians have been reduced to: Repeating jokes from Will and Grace.

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” -Oscar Wilde

"[The Russian Emperor’s] power is more far-reaching than God’s, for God makes only the future, while the Czar remakes the past."  -Prince Peter Koslovsky

Any company which says "Safety is our #1 priority" is lying.

Down Syndrome goes up after 35, says the Mayo Clinic website. No, Down Syndrome goes up always. Nothing remarkable about 35.

“[They were] lies only by implication (the most effective kind, not only because they can be disavaowed when exposed, but because the implicit is always more effective than the explicit.” -Theodore Dalrymple

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” -G. K. Chesterton

These travel-foodie shows are cruel.

Message to the future: I don’t know about your time. Only this: Whoever is saying life will end soon is a fool.

Our nation-building powers have vanished. I think I know why.

“Only the wise man knows who are worthy to be loved.” - Antisthenes, disciple of Socrates

''To speak the truth is a petit-bourgeois habit. To lie, on the contrary, is often justified by the lie's aim. The whole world's capitalists and their governments, as they pant to win the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the above-mentioned reality and will thus transform themselves into men who are deaf, dumb and blind. They will give us credits . . . they will toil to prepare their own suicide.'' -Lenin

"Subordinating truth to the demands of justice cannot be just, and may be a big step toward creating injustice, even tyranny." -Sean Wilentz

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

"That’s her trouble—always wanting things to be what they should be, and never are.  She looks at the city and she thinks of what’s going on in the penthouses, little islands of light in the sky, and she thinks of great, mysterious, breathstopping things, not of cocktail parties, and drunks in bathrooms, and kept women with dogs."  -Ayn Rand, The Simplest Thing in the World

“[The deckhands] said the ship had been so unfortunate that they believed some woman was on board. Women, they said, were the unluckiest creatures in the world at sea.” -John Adams

Indigenous Peoples Day is racist.

"The way I do a moral self-check on this is by asking myself:  Would this be ethical if we did it to prisoners?

Would it be ok for us to deny prisoners transplants as a part of their punishment for crimes committed?

No."  -Politicalmath

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law." -Solzhenitsyn

"There's nothing more sobering than a 30-year-old newspaper... It's amazing how many pressing concerns are literally of-the-moment." -Michael Crichton

Gavin Newsom has signed into law a prohibition on doctors telling parents when their children get abortions. I miss the days prior to hyper-regulation when individuals mattered.

Dave Chapelle is being lambasted by the LGBTQWERTY movement for suggesting that gender is not changeable and aligns with sex. In other words, it is synonymous. I remember when the right were said to be intolerant of art because they didn't like "piss Christ" being taxpayer-funded.

“Mikhail Bakunin rose to challenge Marx for control of the International. Their struggle for control ultimately destroyed the organization. Marx managed to get Bakunin expelled and had the headquarters of the International transfered to the United States, where it would be safe from other European revolutionary challenges—even though he knew that would also mean its demise as well. It was a rule-or-ruin tactic that would appear again and again in later communist infiltrations of non-communist organizations.” -Sowell, “Marxism”

"Grandly dismissing opposing views as "outmoded" or consigning them to "the dust bin of history" eliminates the need to think about them or to meet their challenge to one's existing presuppositions. Such practices have spread well beyond Marxists. Much of the intellectual legacy of Marx is an anti-intellectual legacy. It has been said that you cannot refute a sneer."  -Sowell

"Marx's ringing use of the term "capitalism" was something a verbal coup. It implied a system for the benefit of a small class of people with a unique monopoly of capital assets. But capitalists as thus defined receive only a small fraction of the total income received by labor; yet no one thinks of calling the economic system "laborism," even though that is where three-quarters or more of the income goes."  -Sowell

"I have never seen a man whose bearing was so provoking and intolerable [as Karl Marx's]. To no opinion which differed from his own did he accord the honour of even condescending consideration. Everyone who contradicted him he treated with abject contempt; every argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn at the unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions upon the motives of him who had advanced it."  -Carl Schurz

"I know that [eugenics] numbers many disciples whose intentions are entirely innocent and humane; and who would be sincerely astonished at my describing it as I do. But that is only because evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. Of these who are deceived I shall speak of course as we all do of such instruments; judging them by the good they think they are doing, and not by the evil which they really do."  -Chesterton

Geophysicist Dorian Abbot was canceled from a speech at MIT because far-left activists hysterically lied about him on Twitter. He said, "I forgive the activists who led the campaign against me. Please do not attack them personally. They are fish swimming in a sea of moral confusion."  He's not the only one, professor:  It is wrong to forgive those who have not asked for forgiveness.  It is to surrender good to evil.  I do not forgive them.

"If nothing's horrific, life is terrific." -Dennis Prager

"Homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30% over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since the FBI began keeping records..." -AP News

I know how to solve violent crime.

“Every day in our newspapers we read of the absurd and dangerous leniency of the criminal-justice system.” -Theodore Dalrymple

However sorry people are for some long past injustice is the exact measure of how much injustice they will tolerate in the present.

“Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.” ― Ray Bradbury

A "flame purification" ceremony was held by the council which oversees elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Ontario. 30 books were burned. The only thing we don't know is: When will we wake up to what the left is?

“Many a university teacher during the 1930s has seen English and American students return from the Continent uncertain whether they were communists or Nazis and certain only that they hated Western liberal civilization.” -F. A. Hayek

"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon." -Mark Twain

A Democrat told me to sit out the abortion debate because I'm not a woman. Tough.

65 percent of Democrats believe the US government should restrict false information online "even if it limits freedom of info." This is so awful.

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."  -John D. Rockefeller

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario-francophone-schools-as-gesture-of-reconciliation-denounced

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americans-now-say-government-should-take-steps-to-restrict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/

*This episode contains graphic but important material*

“There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.” -Edmund Burke

"Just how do you “supervise” a criminal who is turned loose in the community? Assigning someone to be with him, one on one and 24/7, would probably be a lot more expensive than locking him up.

But of course no one is proposing any such thing. Having the released criminal reporting to some official from time to time may be enough to allow the soothing word “supervision” to be used. But it hardly restricts what a criminal does with the other nine-tenths of his time when he is not reporting."  -Thomas Sowell

I'm going to tell you a real story about an evil man named Orlando Duarte.

“I have many objections to the philosophy of Christ. I do not believe in returning good for evil. I believe in returning justice for evil. I do not believe that I can put a man under a moral obligation to do me a favor by doing him a wrong. The doctrine of non-resistance is to me absurd. The right should be defended and the wrong resisted. Goodness should have the right to protect itself." -Robert Ingersoll