{"author":"Douglas Wilson","author_id":"Douglas+Wilson","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.God, who inhabits eternity, sees things differently. He knows that our lives are just a mist. We should trust Him. It was not that long ago that Jesus came and it will not be that long before He returns.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["days-gone-by","eternity","time"],"id":3705,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["douglas-wilson","honor","virtue"],"id":4416,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["succeed","look","entertainment "],"id":4529,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["education","religion"],"id":5271,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"Only a madman would try to market headache medicine today under the name John's Headache Pills. This would be insufficiently techno-marvelous. No, the name must sound like it carne out of a laboratory yesterday ... Zantistat 100, or something like that.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["marketing","science","techonology"],"id":8957,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. Men are jerks, and 2. Women should strive by all means to become like them.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["culture","feminism","men","women"],"id":13875,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? From Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["good-and-evil","virtue"],"id":56192,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["atheism"],"id":83812,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"...If the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["politics"],"id":104402,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"},{"text":"Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor, by driving up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor?","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["labor","labor-day","organized-labor","unions","work"],"id":107551,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}