If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties--feminism and multi-culturalism--come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.