Christopher Brooks

“If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided the uncertain extremes of the scale.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“New York City is typical: blacks are only 23 percent of the population but commit over 75 percent of all shootings in the city, as reported by the victims of and witnesses to those shootings; whites commit under 2 percent of all shootings, according to victims and witnesses, though they are 33 percent of the city’s population. Blacks commit 70 percent of all robberies; whites, 4 percent. The black-white crime disparity in New York would be even greater without New York’s large Hispanic population. Black and Hispanic shootings together account for 98 percent of all illegal gunfire.”
― Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

“It may well be that a society’s greatest madness seems normal to itself.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind