Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can’t always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.