Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned. - Joseph Bottum
(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change. - Joseph Bottum
People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence. - Joseph Bottum
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. - Joseph Bottum