Quote of the Day: 28 December 2022 #QotD

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” -Granny Weatherwax (attributed), I Shall Wear Midnight

[Treating a person as a thing leads you to very dangerous places. Dangerous to others, and to your own humanity.]

Quote of the Day: 27 December 2022 #QotD

“Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.” -Inspector Lejeune, The Pale Horse
[Or, rather, it is all too human, but something we strive to overcome, and therefore, less worthy of our consideration than so many other things.]

Quote of the Day: 26 December 2022 #QotD

“I don’t know about you, but I would rather fail at doing the right thing than succeed at doing the wrong thing.” -Lawrence W. Reed
[Character matters. Even more than success or worldly gain.]

Quote of the Day: 25 December 2022 #QotD

“[T]here is nothing more important we can do this Christmas than to rivet our focus on the Savior and on the gift of what His life really means to each of us.” -Russell M. Nelson
[Merry Christmas!]

Quote of the Day: 24 December 2022 #QotD

“[F]rom Dickens to Die Hard, running through and making possible all these charming and uplifting stories that have become part of American Christmas, is the original Christmas story, which most Americans from the earliest days would have read in the King James Version[.]” -Christopher Flannery
[Happy Christmas Eve! May your celebrations bring you joy and peace.]

Quote of the Day: 23 December 2022 #QotD

“I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.” -Ebenezer Scrooge, _A Christmas Carol
[Isn't that how it always is? We don't recognize the value of the time we are in until we have passed it.]

Quote of the Day: 22 December 2022 #QotD

“Ultimately, any attempt to limit what individuals can think or say weakens the defining ethos of the West, namely the unfettered commitment to the pursuit of truth unencumbered by the shackles of the thought police.” -Gad Saad
[Which seems to be some people's goal.]