A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. – Conrad Black
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. – Conrad Black
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. – Conrad Black
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive. – Conrad Black
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim