Quote of the Day. . .

     I like this quote because it blows the whistle on what is so annoying about many people who find great pleasure and satisfaction in protesting things and marching around complaining about sweeping injustices.  I remember sitting on the lawn at Georgetown one sunny day while a bunch of students marched by, banging on pots and pans, protesting the U.S.'s involvement in El Salvador.  I guarantee you that less than 30% of these idiots could identify El Salvador on a map.  It simply made them feel good to get out there and pretend they were doing their little part to furthur the cause of justice on Planet Earth.  Likewise, how many of the hippies who marched around in the Sixties protesting this and that were doing it because they were making an honest effort to do something, and how many of them were doing it because it was more fun than working hard at a job or anything else?

     Here's the quote:

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     "I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering.  I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace.  I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.  To avert or postpone one particular war by wise policy, or to render one particular campaign shorter by strength and skill or less terrible by mercy to the conquered and the civilians is more useful than all the proposals for universal peace that have ever been made; just as the dentist who can stop one toothache has deserved better of humanity than all the men who think they have some scheme for producing a perfectly healthy race."  C.S. Lewis