Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.