"Last year's words belong to last year's language, and this year's words await another voice." T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Man is a political animal. Our social instinct encourages us to take up the difficult demanding tasks of communal responsibility." R. R. Reno "Political Pornography" in First Things, November 2012.
"The way in which contemporary liberalism reinvents moral truths reflects a kind of creative destruction that tears down our mores as completely as a real estate developer destroys a settled neighborhood." R.R. Reno "Tradition's Proper Authority" in First Things, November 2012.
"Since charity impels the human person toward the service of God in all things, it is not feasible to ask a person to quarantine his belief behind the walls of private life." Thomas Joseph White "The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II" in First Things, November 2012.
"Not everyone who slides down a slippery slope realizes he's sliding downhill or minds living among the rubble and trash at the bottom. You can get used to anything." David Mills "While We're At It" in First Things, November 2012.
"Freedom is a precondition to human flourishing, not an end. We say we 'believe in' freedom, but we do not believe in the freedom to make choices to kill, to steal, to bully, to enslave." Robert Royal "Chastened Humanism" in First Things, November 2012.
"For freedom to have any real value, we have to possess already some common sense of what ought to be done with that freedom so that it doesn't merely become an instrument of vice." Robert Royal "Chastened Humanism" in First Things, November 2012.
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