“I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
“Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth--far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.”
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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
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[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
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“The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.”
― The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World
― The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World
“Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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