1 August 2017, Tuesday

“Boaſting is but an Art, our Fears to blind,

And with falſe Terrors ſink another’s Mind.”

—Homer, Iliad, bk. 22, 8th century B.C.E., trans. Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, vol. 6, London: Bernard Lintot, 1720, p. 1651.

“When an aggressive movement that seeks political change abandons facts, logic and objectivity, it always turns into fanaticism.”

—Paul Joseph Watson (PrisonPlanetLive), “This Is What a Social Justice Warrior Looks Like,” 27 Apr. 2016.