“The parent seeking to be the friend of the child necessarily forfeits authority.  As this egalitarian drive works itself out, indeed, children of quite a young age come increasingly under the jurisdiction of the state, exercising its suasion through social workers, and they acquire rights which make it increasingly difficult for either teachers or parents to exercise aut

“As far as cannibalism goes, Jeffrey Dahmer, man, he was out of money and had to eat, man.   I don't know -- it's really grotesque and stretching the wire -- but he did what he had to do.  I don't agree with him, but I don't know, man.”  --  Student in Daytona Beach, Florida, quoted by R.C. Sproul

“Since we nowadays think that all a man needs for acquisition of truth is to exert his brain more or less vigorously, and since we consider an ascetic approach to knowledge hardly sensible, we have lost the awareness of the close bond that links the knowledge of truth to the condition of purity.  Thomas says that unchastity's first-born daughter is blindness of the spirit

A group of us were having breakfast together.  My friend, who runs a small business, was telling a story.