(This
is my fourth installment of “apte dictum” aphoristic entries. For the earlier
installments, see November 3rd, 2010; January 7th, 2011;
and May 14th, 2011.)
(19-187)
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.
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