"I often get the feeling that what's wrong with political discussion, in general, is that it's dominated by narrow malcontents who take their direction, not from images of health and happiness but from statistical suffering.  They always seem to want to eliminate something - poverty, racism, war - instead of settling for fostering other sorts of things it is beyond their power actually to produce.  Man doesn't really create anything.  We don't sit godlike above the world, omniscient and omnipotent.  We find ourselves created, placed somehow in the midst of things that were here before us, related to them in particular ways.  If we can't delight in our situation, we're off on the wrong foot."

                                                                                                                                                        Joseph Sobran
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