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01Undated

Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.

J. Budziszewski / quote

02Undated

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

J. Budziszewski / quote

03Undated

If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.

J. Budziszewski / quote