Someone who deliberately breaks a sacred trust is especially suspicious. It is why American corporations used to discriminate against divorced men. If your wife cannot trust, why should your boss? Adultery used to be a serious social crime when we were a proper society.
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I’m reading the Csptive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz. He writes in one chapter of the book about a poet names Delta who would always have drunken episodes. I’m not a slave enough to drink to always have drunken episodes. But I do have strange destructive episodes fueled by resentment or a desire to cruelly contradictory.
No, I wouldn’t go back in time and kill Baby Hitler. Come on! He’s just an innocent baby!
I would go back in time and kill Hitler! Baby!*
*Hitler! Baby” would have made a name for himself at that point, and not as a painter…
“The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method”
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Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton
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“The chieftain chosen to be the friend of the people becomes the enemy of the people; the newspaper started to tell the truth now exists to prevent the truth being told.”
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Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton
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If people don’t think you’re weird because of your thoughts — not your actions — then, you’re not doing ‘er right!
Perhaps only men can understand this: that you cannot be a man until you have risked your life. Nor can you be a good man until you have risked everything in a noble cause.
British prime minister, Keir Starmer, who rose to power as the prosecutor protecting Pakistani “grooming gangs,” and now puts people in gaol who try to defend their rape victims. The idea that Mr Starmer should have a rôle in the government of a civilized country, is as absurd as the idea that the 14-year-old narcissist who has ruled Canada, or the 82-year-old senescent who has ruled the United States, are respectable members of the human race.
