We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money the poor because they had much.
There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
In the late 1990s some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror namely massive atrocities 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States millions of refugees tens of thousands of people killed hideous repression that's international terror and we can go on and on.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
If it is the duty of the State to educate it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education namely the taxation out of which education is provided.
I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely a problem.
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand namely exactly nothing.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.