“Sister,” she said, “What’s wrong? I mean about me…. Why do they call me the Accursed?” —Psyche in C. S. Lewis’s Til We Have Faces (1956) “It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish...
Sacrifice is commonly treated as a relic of man’s primitive past…. —Rousas J. Rushdoony (1992) The bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears. —Charles Wesley (1742) The Purpose of Sacrifice Sociologists and anthropologists struggle with...
If there are no laws made in heaven, by what standards should human society organize itself? —Gary DeMar In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had. —Rousas J. Rushdoony Theocracy in the...
GARIBALDI Oh, I’m an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador. DELENN So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless? GARIBALDI Not everyone. Just the bad guys. —“Passing Through Gethsemane,” Babylon...
I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body…. —Charles Dickens on the first penitentiary (1842) I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime...
The Ten Commandments are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. —Cecil B. De Mille, opening of The Ten Commandments (1956) Most American Christians...
It’s as if you had taken an orange, sliced it in half, and only concerned yourself with one of the halves. —Francis Schaeffer, Death in the City (1969) Obviously Schaeffer should have said, “You have a spoiled orange, while I have a fresh...
We all have visions. They are the silent shapers of our thoughts. —Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions (1987) What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions. They are commandments. —Ted Koppel, an address at Duke University...
I love humanity! It’s people I can’t stand. —Linus Social Compassion and Self-Interest Liberals have their own package of values. This package includes passionate sincerity, love of humanity, concern for social justice, personal autonomy, as well...
What is Truth? Pontius Pilate (AD 30) Truth on Trial Pilate entered the Judgment Hall with the accusations of the Jewish leaders still ringing in his ears. Envy, he thought. Political maneuvering. That’s what this is all about. He ordered his...
To hold one’s own life as one’s ultimate value, and one’s own happiness as one’s highest purpose are two aspects of the same achievement. —Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics” (1964) We are not our own… —John Calvin, The Institutes of the...
The right of revolution is metaphysical, not existential (and none may logically claim such a right who have not a metaphysics on which to found their case). —Clarence B. Carson, The Rebirth of Liberty (1976) The War for Independence The American...
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