To be aggrieved means you’ve created an impenetrable wall of “feeling” around you: No one can question you because you’re “outraged.” — xiii
And this new outrage came into being via one phenomenon: tolerance. The idea of tolerance — a seemingly innocuous concept — has now become something else entirely: a way to bludgeon people into shutting up, piping down, and apologizing, when the attacked are often the ones that hold the key to common sense. — xiii
Liberalism is the one-way ticket to backslapping approval among the cool kids, which makes it about as rebellious as a divorced dad getting an earring from the local mall’s Piercing Pagoda. — P.47
Apolitical, in the media, means decidedly liberal and not used to being challenged. — P.54
A funny thing about tolerant people? They’re really only tolerant when you agree with them. Suddenly when they find out you disagree with just one of their assumptions, they become intolerant of you. — xiv
But historians know: What begins as a utopian vision, always — always — ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state’s idea of what’s right. Then it’s not utopia. It’s Uganda. It’s 100 million dead. — P.156
That’s the true, insidious irony: the left is more tolerant of the people who want us dead than they are of the people trying to protect us from those who want us dead. This intolerant view toward our most giving citizens is never exemplified by your average American, but is expressed only in secluded teachers’ lounges populated by men in their forties who still think a ponytail makes a statement colonialism. — P.180
Bottom line: What is considered cool is everything you find detrimental to sound living. — P.188
There’s a bully gap going on. Everyone claims to be bullied. No one claims to be the bully. Ever. — P.214-215
By Epictetus
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