In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
~ John le Carré
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Monthly Archives: June 2024
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You do not need to withhold any single criticism of Woodrow Wilson, the man and the president, to regret the harm done by the unbalanced and totalizing censure that has been heaped upon him over the past decade. Wilson was a great domestic reformer. He was the first American president to perceive and explain how American power could anchor the peace of a future democratic world.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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Campus Life at the
University of Maine
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In the broadest possible sense, “what’s wrong” with the modern American university is that although it still understands itself to operate under the model established by the 19th-century German university—which emphasized academic freedom, seminars, and laboratories as means of allowing students to discover the truth for themselves—it’s becoming a parody of that model. The professors are going to tell you what to think, and you’re going to backfill that “truth” with research of your own.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at
Cal State San Bernardino
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Deception is the knowledge of kings.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Campus Life at the
University of Georgia
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The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than of deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
~ Eric Hoffer
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