A Big Mac - The Communion Wafer

The Faithful Witness, Like...socrates, Voltaire, And Swift And Christ Himself, Is At His Best When He Is Questioning And Clarifying And Avoiding The Specialists Obsession With Solution. He Betrays Society When He Is Silent...he Is True To Himself And To People When His Clarity Causes Disquiet.

We Must Discover How To Ask Simple Questions Of Ourselves.

I Have A Theory Of Statistics: If You Can Double Them Or Halve Them And They Still Work, They Are Really Good Statistics.

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

Our Belief In Salvation Through The Market Is Very Much In The Utopian Tradition. The Economists And Managers Are The Servants Of God. Like The Medieval Scholastics, Their Only Job Is To Uncover The Divine Plan. They Could Never Create Or Stop It. At Most They Might Aspire To Small Alterations.