It shouldn’t be surprising that working-class Americans of color sympathize with migrants but don’t necessarily want an open border, that they fear crime at least as much as police misconduct. But their views confound progressives, who see these issues through the almost metaphysical lens of group identity—the belief that we think inside lines of race, gender, and sexuality, that these accidental and immutable traits dictate our politics.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Bismarck is reported to have responded, that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
~ George Louis Beer
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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.
~ Franz Kafka
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At root, intersectionality teaches that the relative victim status of various groups is the deepest truth, and this framework must drive our interpretation of both natural and built reality. Truth, moral claims, beauty, dignity, the explanatory value of a research insight—all of these must be subjugated to a prior determination of the historical power or powerlessness of certain sociological categories.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
~ Diane Arbus
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
~ Franz Kafka
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
~ Charles Dickens
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