If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.
Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate
Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.
Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.
For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The bigger the government, the greater the corruption
Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
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