Nick Price

“a society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic.”
― Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

“Your identity is secure only insofar as you feel it to be secure. No one outside of you can truly affirm your identity. Really the best we can do is remind one another that we each individually have the power to declare that our identity is good. In other words, your identity is a creation of pure subjectivity, sustained and affirmed by subjectivity.”
― Alan Noble, You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World

“Huge principles, once bewildering and even repellent, were again luminously self-evident; he saw, for example, that while Humanity-Religion endeavoured to abolish suffering the Divine Religion embraced it, so that the blind pangs even of beasts were within the Father's Will and Scheme; or that while from one angle one colour only of the web of life was visible—material, or intellectual, or artistic—from another the Supernatural was as eminently obvious. Humanity-Religion could only be true if at least half of man's nature, aspirations and sorrows were ignored. Christianity, on the other hand, at least included and accounted for these, even if it did not explain them. This … and this … and this … all made the one and perfect whole. There was the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive. He might be damned, but God reigned. He might go mad, but Jesus Christ was Incarnate Deity, proving Himself so by death and Resurrection, and John his Vicar. These things were as the bones of the Universe—facts beyond doubting—if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream.”
― Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World illustrated

“Once upon a time, the Islamic world was a superpower and its jihad an irresistible force to be reckoned with. Over two centuries ago, however, a rising Europe—which had experienced more than one millennium of Muslim conquests and atrocities—eclipsed and defanged Islam. As Muhammad’s civilization retreated into obscurity, the post-Christian West slowly came into being. Islam did not change, but the West did: Muslims still venerate their heritage and religion—which commands jihad against infidels—whereas the West has learned to despise its heritage and religion, causing it to become an unwitting ally of the jihad.”
― Raymond Ibrahim, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West