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“It may well be that a society’s greatest madness seems normal to itself.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
“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?”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
“One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, gentleman, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!" That again would not matter, but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers--such is the nature of man. And”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
“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.”
― The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
― The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Christopher’s 2025 Year in Books
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