As Commander-in-Chief I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States.  Throughout the centuries men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel and inspiration.  It is a fountain of strength and now, as always, an aid to attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt, letter on White House letterhead to the Armed Forces, January 25, 1941

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

-sign on Sense of Events

"Nobody ever thinks they're stupid. It's part of the stupidity."

-Detective Ray Cole, interrogating Preston 'Bodie' Broadus, The Wire: Season 2, episode 9

To the left, success has become the Mark of Cain. Where success once used to be proof of good character, the balance has shifted and it is now proof of bad character. The left blames all disparities on injustice. If A has less than B, then B has somehow discriminated against A. All that's left is for the sociologists and critical race theorists to plug in the variables, write their papers and explain the mechanism for the injustice and how it can be remedied through centralized redistribution.

This is the era of "You didn't build that" where achievement is inherently unfair and an object of guilt. To succeed is to steal. Anyone who has achieved more than those around him has unfairly taken from them. And the more he succeeds, the more he has to feel guilty about and the more he must atone through social justice.

-Daniel Greenfield