Mari

“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
― Winston Churchill

“It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.”
― Anthony Esolen, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child

“Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography”
― Anthony Esolen, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child

“So we teach them how to sit still, how to obey bells, how to make insipid clichés pass for thought, how to be “subversive” in trivial and uniform ways, how to think “outside the box” of tradition and wisdom and into the stainless steel cage of the politically “correct,” how to extend the political pinky while sipping the political tea.”
― Anthony Esolen, Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child