To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. – Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. – Christopher Lasch
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. – James Joyce
We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University