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Mormon Handicaps

Mormon Handicaps

by | Oct 18, 2013 | Mormonism

My  Kids [toc]Watching my youngest daughter with her immediately older sister is very entertaining. She seems to view her older sister as a wise oracle and follows her around parroting what she says like a minion. “Dad – your salad looks gross!” Her older sister...

Victor Hugo on equality

by | Mar 5, 2013 | Literature

“Let us understand each other in regard to equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base. Equality, citizens, is not all vegetation on a level, a society of big spears of grass and little oaks; a neighbourhood of jealousies emasculating each...

John Stuart Mill on War

by | Mar 3, 2013 | Quotes

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets,...

Victor Hugo on war

by | Mar 2, 2013 | Literature

Civil war? What does this mean? Is there any foreign war? Is not every war between men, war between brothers? War is modified only by its aim. There is neither foreign war, nor civil war; there is only unjust war and just war. Until the day when the great human...

Victor Hugo on the plight of women

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Literature

“She was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman who, having received a blow from her husband, went to complain to her father, crying for vengeance and saying: “Father, you owe my husband affront for affront.” The father asked: “Upon which cheek did you...

Victor Hugo on revolutions

by | Feb 15, 2013 | Literature, Politics

Every revolution, being a normal accomplishment, contains in itself its own legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonour, but which persists, even when sullied, which survives, even when stained with blood. Revolutions spring, not from an accident, but...