Paul Smith

“most lies are acted out, rather than told”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“When someone claims to be acting from the highest principles, for the good of others, there is no reason to assume that the person’s motives are genuine. People motivated to make things better usually aren’t concerned with changing other people—or, if they are, they take responsibility for making the same changes to themselves (and first).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“As John Courtney Murray put it, the obligations of society and the state are “not coextensive with the wider and higher range of obligations that rest upon the human person (not to speak of the Christian)”. And thus “the morality proper to the life and action of society and the state is not univocally the morality of personal life, or even of familial life. . . The effort to bring the organized action of politics and the practical art of statecraft under the control of the Christian values that govern personal and familial life is inherently fallacious.”
― George Weigel, The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections On Turbulent Times

“People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.”
― Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice