There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic. - Theodore Dalrymple

For intellectuals, everyone’s mind is closed but their own.

Education is not a shield against stupidity, much less against brutality. Indeed, one might almost define an intellectual as someone who can witness a massacre and see a principle.

The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men’s souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves in the approved direction.