APTE DICTUM ONE MORE TIME

(This is my fourth installment of “apte dictum” aphoristic entries. For the earlier installments, see November 3^rd, 2010; January 7^th, 2011; and May 14^th, 2011.)

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Those who have known no tragedy, have known no glory.

 (19-188)

There are different ways of playing the hero, and martyrdom may well be the easiest of them.

(19-189)

An ultimate act of love cannot sometimes be distinguished from an act of direst hatred…

(19-190)

The hidden agenda of every revolution is Carpe Diem.

(19-191)

All that’s freedom is not good. (Paraphrasing All that glitters is not gold.)

(19-192)

Live Free or Die: The new slogan of modern imperialism.

(19-193)

Any zeal is a form of religion.

(19-194)

The greater the challenge, the richer the reward. The smaller the opposition, the lower the morale of the warrior, and the paltrier his harvest.

(19-195)

They say, “Father of this,” “Father of that.” I ask, Who, in this case, is the Mother?

(19-196)

There is not so much danger in oversimplifying the complicated as in overcomplicating the simple.

(19-197)

Evil-minded philosopher: Philucifer.

(19-198)

My jocular name for Adolf Hitler is “Man Of The Prinzip,” as in Führerprinzip.

(19-199)

The rest is… hopefully, nothing…

(19-200)

The modern excesses of financial capitalism have changed the most famous phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence, to read: wealth, property, and the pursuit of affluence.

(19-201)

Man is a force of nature turned into a tool by woman.

(19-202)

Prepare to be unprepared!

(19-203)

Fiat Veritas, Pereat Vita. “Translated” into English as “You cannot handle the truth!” (A Few Good Men.)

(19-204)

The reason for America’s worst troubles as a nation is that she often fails to understand what the Clintonian ‘is’ is.

(19-205)

“The mule loves a heavy burden,” says the proverb. But then, no blasphemy intended, doesn’t Christianity worship the Mule qui tollis peccata mundi? The Lamb is just another aspect of it. (From a “biography.”)

(19-206)

“A Bush in the Cheney Shop:” a perfect epigram for that infamous Administration…

(19-207)

It is amazing how many American critics these days are ready to confess America’s impotence and America’s incompetence, rather than to admit that America is wrong.

(19-208)

Paraphrasing Goldwater, criticism in the service of Democracy is a virtue.

(19-209)

Theology is philosophy on sacred ground.

(19-210)

(Courtesy of the Sphinx.) What is wrong with the New American Century?

It’s not the dog, but the fleas!

(19-211)

In most people’s brains, there are not only white cells and gray cells, but also prison cells, in which they incarcerate their God-given free spirit.