A number of people who I’ve talked to about this assume that I got into a fight with the cops. (Because of, y'know, the militant politics.) I actually had an audience member come up to me once and ask me if I paid taxes. Of course I pay taxes! I pa...
Charlie: What was it we cleared, eight-six thousand and change? Raymond: Eighty-six thousand, five hundred... Charlie: So, eighty thousand to pay the cars off. What did I say I had to pay to get the Rolex out of hock? Raymond: Thirty-five hundred dol...
With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is ...
We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Than the socialists say that we don't want an religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Than they say that w...
One day I said to them, Where is the God you worship? They said he was like Chukwu, that he was in the sky. I asked then, Who is the person that was killed, the person that hangs on the wood outside the mission? They said he was the son, but that the...
All men are created equal.' That doesn’t mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have the same skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire. Each of us has the capacity to drea...
In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to not matter, to never have mattered. The same for my species, and the earth, the universe, and God. When the last star ...
…We had spiritually marked ourselves. This marking began…when the counterculture of political correctness began, and the assault on Christian values and traditions began. At first it seemed so ridiculous that it was harmless, kind of like a disea...
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public e...
At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and import...But my central contention is that our near-religious fidelity to the meritocratic mo...
Luck is the grand equalizer.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
The sole equality on earth is death.
Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
