How Free Are We?

"Total sexual license, observed both G.K. Chesterton and Aldous Huxley, is the only freedom the totalitarian state offers its masses, because it is a cheap and effective method of reducing them to slavery. Give us pleasure without consequence, and in time our consciences will dull sufficiently that we will not protest as the state takes our property, our wives, and our children. We will not even notice, in our endless flight form suffering and our perpetual pursuit of the right to feel good, that the hands gradually tightening the irons around our ankles are our own."

You are what you eat?

"The rise of sensationalism (in journalism) everywhere testifies to man's loss of points of reference, to his determination to enjoy the forbidden in the name of freedom. All reserve is being sacrificed to stimulation."

Richard Weaver

The modern mind: sensation instead of reflection.

"That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. [But] how can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously."

Richard Weaver

Stoic and Christian Ideas of Freedom

"...resemblances between the two are of a formal kind only. While the quest for freedom is no longer to be pursued through adherence to an external law, for the Stoic it is discovered through self-understanding while for Paul it is by possessing, through the Spirit, "the mind of Christ" 1Cor.2:16. Although both require an awareness of the illusory value of many received beliefs and external objicts for Paul it is precisely the ascetic response that Stoicism endorsed that is to be left behind (see Col.2:16-23)."

Robert Banks

More on History

"The past is , perhaps, not totally lost, but it is no longer ours; but in the naked 'now' there is no room for any picture of ourselves, and that is where God is."

Simon Tugwell

Why Read History?

"The past... is a vast storehouse for those who would rummage its contents to find lessons for the present comment." Donald A. Yerxa