One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
~ Walter Bagehot
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
~ Walter Bagehot
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The United States has cultivated a culture that prizes attention over empathy, fame over purpose, grievance over grace. The modern gunman doesn’t seek anonymity but immortality. He has learned that, in the land of viral violence, even murder guarantees an audience.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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