POINTS TO PONDER LIII

From Reader's Digest
Contributed by Gertrude Himmelfarb

   Values imparted by the reigning culture have now received the sanction of the state. This is reflected in the distribution of condoms in schools, in the prohibition of school prayer, in the official rhetoric - "nonmarital childbearing" or "alternative lifestyle" - and in other ways.
   It takes a great effort for the individual to decide that something is immoral and to act on that belief when the law declares it legal and the culture deems it acceptable.
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From Reader's Digest
By Thomas L. Masson

Cato the Elder, on observing statues being set up in honor of others, remarked: "I would rather have people ask, 'Why isn't there a statue to Cato?' than 'Why is there one?' "