J. Budziszewski Quotes

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

  J. Budziszewski

  Intelligent, Stupidity, Achieve

  J. Budziszewski (2010). “The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

  J. Budziszewski

  Reality, Doe, Shapes

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• 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

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• 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?

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  Ideas, Creating, Judging

  J. Budziszewski (2011). “What We Can't Not Know: A Guide”, p.12, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

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  Thinking, If There Is A God, Agnostic

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• To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

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  Evil, Abuse, Needs

  J. Budziszewski (2004). “How to Stay Christian in College”, Th1nk Books

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• Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

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  Ignorance, Different, Recognition

  J. Budziszewski (2010). “The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man”, p.15, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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.

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  Country, Zero, Children

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