Quotes 26 Sep 17

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. - Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, 2006

A king is a great benefit be he never so evil. - W Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christen Man in  Brian Moynahan, Book of Fire, p152

Christ is never fully valued--until sin is clearly seen.- J.C. Ryle

 “And here we see why the so-called ‘democratic deficit’ in the European institutions is a built-in feature of them. The institutions were set up in such a way that they could be influenced from below, but controlled only from above. Accountability, however, means influence from above, but control from below – control by those whose interest is served, and who retain the ultimate remedy of ejection.” - Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”

“One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere on this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst into conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.” Algerian President Houari Boumedienne in 1974 speaking to the Gen assembly of the United Nations Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 212
(Page 310). https://theweeflea.com/2017/08/11/the-strange-death-of-europe-part-2-immigration