The man with the Stone, is not the one to fear, fear the one that made the Stone.

While we may continue to use the words
smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
of those who believe in a single general
intelligence has come to an end. Brain
scientists and geneticists are documenting
the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

As religion in Ireland has declined, the murder rate and the crime rate [have] soared. The marital breakdown rate has also soared, as has the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, out-of-wedlock births, suicide, drug abuse, etc.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

Only 'the weak' and 'the ignorant' compete and compare_to know their strength.