Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the
fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it
out in his own good time. -Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) _On The Eve_ [1860], Chapter 35
What man has written, man may read
But God fills every root and seed
With cryptic words, to strangely set
For mortal to decipher yet.
--Charles Dalmon (1872- ) _Documents_
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.- William Blackstone, Book III, Chapter XVII.
“I feel that we in the EU are now committing ritual suicide and were just looking on” – the Left Wing Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico. (Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 212
If our censorious students are going to import America’s campus insanity, they need to know that means they will also import its consequences. And those consequences are dire. No one can imagine that it’s a good thing to create a generation unable to stomach things it dislikes or disagrees with. How are they to survive in a pluralistic democracy? It’s vital to be able to hear people out, to have civilised disagreement, to engage in debate, to change your mind. The ‘safe space’, by guarding students from the disagreeable, is churning out an army of hypersensitive dogmatists. We can see this in the US with the current outburst of statue-smashing. And we can see it in Europe with the alarming revelation that fewer and fewer young people believe in freedom of speech and democracy.- Brendan O’Neill, Spectator, https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/students-have-become-the-new-masters-and-the-result-is-campus-tyranny/
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