Category: Thought

Men who have gained a high official position in universities and academies are often actuated by a jealousy very similar to that which we have traced among ecclesiastics. They establish a certain scientific orthodoxy, based often to a great extent on mere conjecture and assertion, and seek to frown down and to silence the unknown outsider who calls in question one of their dogmas, or who discovers a truth which they have overlooked. That any region of research should be officially tabooed is a humiliating circumstance. The dread of truth, the jealousy of discovery, is not confined to the Holy Inquisition, and no disestablishment of churches, no secularization of schools and colleges, not even the suppression of every religion — were such a step possible — would put an end to its action.

J.W. Slater, “The Martyrdom of Science,” Popular Science Monthly (Vol. XVII, May 1880).

I am innocent, and I am not suicidal. If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBT community. Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury. But I did not do this, and I am not suicidal — and if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself. And you must all know that.

Jussie Smollett, upon being sentenced to jail time (as well as $120,106 restitution to the city of Chicago and a $25,000 fine) on March 10, 2022.

Prior to his court-exiting outbursts, the judge had said:

Let me tell you Mr. Smollett, I know that there is nothing that I will do here today that can come close to the damage you’ve already done to your own life. You’ve turned your life upside down by your misconduct and shenanigans, you’ve destroyed your life as you knew it, and there’s nothing that any sentencing judge could do to you that can compare to the damage you’ve already caused yourself.

You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime, and that’s shameful.

Judge James Linn, in the sentencing hearing of Jussie Smollett, March 10, 2022.

Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

As quoted by Plutarch.

He said that wise men gained more advantage from fools, than fools from wise men; for the wise men avoid the errors of fools, but fools cannot imitate the example of wise men.

Plutarch on Marcus Cato, Parallel Lives.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Sertorius, sec. 16.

Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Zanoni (1842).

Collectivism means the end of truth. To make a totalitarian system function efficiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the ends selected by those in control; it is essential that the people should come to regard these ends as their own. This is brought about by propaganda and by complete control of all sources of information.

Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Road to Serfdom: A Condensation from the Book,” Reader’s Digest (April 1945), p. 11.

There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.

Albert Camus, The Plague (1947).

Because of how the federal government operates, they really can do whatever they want to whoever they want and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Nick Fuentes, speaking in “The Total End of a Free Society” (February 23, 2022).