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

“In Los Angeles, for example, blacks commit 42 percent of all robberies and 34 percent of all felonies, though they are 10 percent of the city’s population. Whites commit 5 percent of all robberies and 13 percent of all felonies, though they are 29.4 percent of the city’s population.”
― Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

“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

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