Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy