“ For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them. Anthony M. Esolen
“ There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whi… Harold Bloom
“ The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called Reverend. Pe… Christopher Hitchens
“ Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself. Either way, you're winning. Ahmed Mostafa
“ The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction. Ahmed Mostafa
“ Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere. Thomas Piketty
“ [you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of t… John Grisham
“ Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. Jodi Picoult
“ Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: I did not know that fellow was a poet. And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical ma… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“ I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an equality feminist from the 1970s, I am di… Christina Hoff Sommers
“ Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making e… Christopher Langan
“ No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like Marie Lu
“ Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them. William Shakespeare
