Gives the same vibes as the Constant Gardner, except instead of being set in Africa its spiritual center is Ingushetia. Beautiful, tragic, a Byronic lGives the same vibes as the Constant Gardner, except instead of being set in Africa its spiritual center is Ingushetia. Beautiful, tragic, a Byronic love triangle that is also a story of conversions and awakenings. Sometimes you have to die to live. Sometimes you have to kill to love....more
"But we find you pay more regard to their fancies than to our necessities." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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There were pa"But we find you pay more regard to their fancies than to our necessities." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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There were parts of this pamphlet that I found obnoxious (his fawning over kings, queens, Popes, royals, etc.) But there were also brilliant flecks through out it. It is also an important book to understand modern conservatism (not to be confused with Trumpian and Christianist Conservatism). This is, for good and bad, the politics of Romney, Flake, Sasse, etc., and most the never-Trump Republicans.
As I read this, I kept wondering what he would have made of the last four years:
"The resources of public folly are soon exhausted."
"These politicians have been cruel, not economical."
"They cannot raise supplies, but they can raise mobs."
"Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high road to riches."
"They rob only to enable them to cheat, but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud by making out accounts for other purposes which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception."
"But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
I originally gave this book 3-stars because 1/2 of it drove me nuts. But he did accurately predict Napoleon's rise and might have saved both the US and Great Britian some grief if more of his colleagues has listened to him....more
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