“A successful autocracy rests on the universal failure of individual courage. In a democracy, abdications of conscience are never trivial. They demoralise politics, debilitate candour, and disrupt thought.”http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/4/the-death-of-adam-essays-on-modern-thought-by-marilynne-robinson
Here, her pen, in the manner of a “smart bomb”, homes in unerringly on the heart of the matter. It says all that needs to be said.
"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” C. S. Lewis
Saturday, 23 April 2011
A very smart 'smart bomb'
From the pen of Marilynne Robinson:
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