How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.

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.

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

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