The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

There is no happiness that isn't earned

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.