The words ‘I’m sorry’ are so powerful that it’s almost difficult to overstate.
When America doesn’t act, bad things happen.
It is no longer higher education, it is higher ‘indoctrination ’
Liberalism means well, but it destroys.
You know what I ask Jewish liberals? ‘Why don’t you preach what you practice?’
The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world.
It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent.
You’re ‘wealthy’ if you don’t worry.
Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness.
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic.
You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.
Yes, there is a “secret to happiness” – and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.
Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.
Americans who do not see themselves as victims – of an ‘unfair’ or ‘racist’ or ‘misogynist’ society – are more likely to vote Republican. On the other hand, Americans who see themselves as victims of American society are likely to vote Democrat. Therefore, the Democratic Party and its supportive media cultivate victimhood among almost all Americans who are not white and male.
Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.
Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.
Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.
Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.
You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.
Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children’s IQs than their children’s characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.