Michael E Brown

“If he had begun with the human soul—that is, if he had begun on himself—he would have found original sin almost the first thing to be believed in. He would have found, to put the matter shortly, that a permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.”
― James Ostrowski, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America