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I stumbled on this and am considering reading it via a curious chain:1) I just finished one of Guy Gavriel Kay’s magnificent historical-fantasy novels.
2) I was glancing through my prior “reviews” of his works and found one I’d written a dozen years a ...more "
Every institution of government shows declining levels of public trust
I'm worried that Deneen may be tending to far to the right. This is only the introduction, but he seems to be leaning a little harder on how big government has betrayed the country’s ideals, while not mentioning how the “free market “ has evolved into an omnipresence and omniscient cluster of corporate oligopolies. We'll see.
“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Nevernight
― Nevernight
“You only have to enforce boundaries where they’re being imposed,”
― The King's Blood
― The King's Blood
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
― A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
― A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
“Routine is rather like the egg whites in a batter: It imparts little flavor, but it holds everything together.”
― Arm of the Sphinx
― Arm of the Sphinx
“I dislike certainty because it feels like truth, but it isn’t. And I think I have had some inkling what it is for a whole people to become certain.”
― The King's Blood
― The King's Blood
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