Sunday, June 12th, 2005
Three quotes for your Sunday evening contemplation:
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
–Justice William O. Douglas, via Peter McWilliams.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
–C.S. Lewis, via Gene Healy.
Then there came a time — no one in old New York, no one, would have believed it — when you could not find a firecracker, let alone an opium den, in Chinatown; a time when you could not find a sin in Times Square, save for the mortal sin of mediocrity; a time when you could not find an ashtray in a bar; a time when real life and real freedom, replaced by lip service to them, became the vice that New York, like the vast dying nothingness of America itself, was ashamed to mention.”
–From King of the Jews, Nick Tosches’s biographer of mobster Arnold Rothstein, via this month’s Esquire.
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