Someone — having reached the age of forgetfulness, I forget who — said to me a few weeks ago that the first sign of socialism is a shortage of toilet paper. 

It is not necessary for a government to be thoroughgoingly despotic for us to live in a totalitarian condition in which we are afraid to say some things and — what is even worse — are required to say others.

Adolescence is the age neither of good taste nor of wisdom, which no doubt is why some politicians want to lower the voting age even further.

The word gentleman has fallen into disrepute, along with the word man. 

You have to work at it not to notice similarities between the postmodern world and that very old, Old Testament story about the Tower of Babel.  (Gen. 11:1-9) 

As he was leaving, one of the patients, Raphael Simi, asked him: "Will you be my friend?"

Abel's suffering leads to his self-development as a warrior. Cain's suffering leads to envy, malevolence, and murder. This essay explicates and develops Peterson's interpretation of the story.

"A powerful invitation to know God as our Father, to experience His fatherly love and to witness that love to others in our everyday lives." - Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., archbishop of Philadelphia

On one of the prominent encyclopedia sites, we are told in the entry for King Herod that "most scholars agree" that he was entirely capable of massacring the Holy Innocents in Bethlehem.