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

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

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.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.