J. Budziszewski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Intelligent #Stupidity #Achieve
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?
-- J. Budziszewski

#Creating #Ideas #Judging
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Country #Zero #Children
Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Reality #Doe #Shapes
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Ignorance #Different #Honest
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Evil #Abuse #Needs
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Thinking #If There Is A God #Agnostic
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.
-- J. Budziszewski

#Children #Editors #Names

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
Success is to achieve some of your dreams that you have dreamed as a boy.
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

J. Budziszewski famous quotes

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