To Regret Religion Is To Regret Western

So What Exactly Are The Rewards Of Resentment. It Is Always A Relief To Know That The Reason We Have Failed In Life Is Not Because We Lack The Talent, Energy, Or Determination To Succeed, But Because Of A Factor That Is Beyond Our Control And That Has Loaded The Dice Decisively Against Us.

The Idea That Freedom Is Merely The Ability To Act Upon One's Whims Is Surely Very Thin And Hardly Begins To Capture The Complexities Of Human Existence; A Man Whose Appetite Is His Law Strikes Us Not As Liberated But Enslaved.

The Bravest And Most Noble Are Not Those Who Take Up Arms, But Those Who Are Decent Despite Everything; Who Improve What It Is In Their Power To Improve, But Do Not Imagine Themselves To Be Saviours. In Their Humble Struggle Is True Heroism.

There Is Nothing An Addict Likes More, Or That Serves As Better Pretext For Continuing His Present Way Of Life, Than To Place The Weight Of Responsibility For His Situation Somewhere Other Than On His Own Decisions.

Childhood In Large Parts Of Modern Britain, At Any Rate, Has Been Replaced By Premature Adulthood, Or Rather Adolescence. Children Grow Up Very Fast But Not Very Far. That Is Why It Is Possible For 14 Year Olds Now To Establish Friendships With 26 Year Olds - Because They Know By The Age Of 14 All They Are Ever Going To Know.