Thursday, 20 March 2008

Quote of the day


“ The greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.”

Herbert Butterfield

3 comments:

Wolfie said...

Particularly when that self-righteousness invariably seems to think that its cause should not be confined by the requirements of logic.

CFD Ed said...

Wolfie, they always seem to have their own curious logic that can be used to justify whatever they please...

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