Half Prayer

“for all that she talked about the importance of ideas - didn't like to actually engage with any ideas other than the ones she already had.”
― Travis J.I. Corcoran, Causes of Separation

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The heralded social dividends of education are largely illusory: rising education’s main fruit is not broad-based prosperity, but credential inflation”
― Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

“The political class has adopted inclusiveness and diversity as a political instrument, as a means of controlling a society it has set about reshaping. The “diversity machine” is a mechanism of state power that operates without anyone being permitted to notice its coercive nature. Therapeutic regimes are packaged in a way that disguises their resort to force; both the Left and establishment Right in the United States, which misrepresent political life, have helped to make this concealment possible.”
― Paul Edward Gottfried, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy