Monday Ménage

George Santayana. Adlai Stevenson. Dante Alighieri.

The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost. George Santayana.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri.