Aaron Cox

“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well... When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“I am an aristocrat: I love liberty, I hate equality.”
― John Randolph

“Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The old father of lies was clever at telling half-truths: How shall you “know” good and evil, until you shall have sampled a little? Taste and be as Gods. But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz