The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance. - Theodore Dalrymple

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

Never has so much indifference masqueraded as so much compassion; never has there been such willful blindness. The once pragmatic English have become a nation of sleepwalkers.

What is the point of restraint and circumspection, if such stream-of-consciousness vulgarity can win not merely wealth and fame but complete social acceptance?