Charles Simic Quote

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may...

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

I love my country, not my government.

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.

We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, w...

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or i...

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.