Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"...obsession with limited government produces impressive failures of wisdom and compassion in otherwise intelligent people"

Sam Harris

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Honour

"With the primitive barbarian, before the simple content of the notion has been obscured by its own ramifications and by a secondary growth of cognate ideas, "honourable" seems to connote nothing else than assertion of superior force."

Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen, Kindle Loc. 205