Peter Carblis

“Justice requires that all human beings irrespective of race or color, but also irrespective of age, or size, or stage of development, be afforded the protection of the laws. The common good requires that the laws reflect and promote a sound understanding of marriage as uniting one man and one woman in a bond founded on the bodily communion made possible by their reproductive complementarity.”
― Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

“I would warn that limited government—considered as an ideal as vital to business as to the family—cannot be maintained where the marriage culture collapses and families fail to form or easily dissolve. Where these things happen, the health, education, and welfare functions of the family will have to be undertaken by someone, or some institution, and that will sooner or later be the government. To deal with pressing social problems, bureaucracies will grow, and with them the tax burden. Moreover, the growth of crime and other pathologies where family breakdown is rampant will result in the need for more extensive policing and incarceration and, again, increased taxes to pay for these government services. If we want limited government, as we should, and a level of taxation that is not unduly burdensome, we need healthy institutions of civil society, beginning with a flourishing marriage culture that supports family formation and preservation.”
― Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

“As to why god would put up with atheists who bad-mouth him, I suppose it is because he is not as impatient with them as they are with him.”
― Michael Augros, Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God's Existence

“The true liberal-arts ideal rejects the reduction of reason to the status of passion's ingenious servant. It is an ideal rooted in the conviction that there are human goods, and a common good, in light of which we have reasons to constrain, to limit, to regulate, and even to alter our desires.”
― Robert P. George, Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism