The Seven Deadly Virtues Quotes

“It’s not hard, then, to see how the simple message of a Jewish carpenter in Nazareth became so popular. Jesus didn’t talk much about justice. He talked about mercy. He talked about forgiveness. As his followers see it, Jesus is the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, Universal Circuit. And he’s a pretty lenient jurist.”
― Jonathan V. Last, The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell

“It’s evident to anyone paying attention that zero tolerance equals 100 percent stupidity. But you have to understand that zero-tolerance rules aren’t about protecting kids. They exist to protect the adults who are too cowardly to make judgments.”
― Jonathan V. Last, The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell

“Justice is something people do to other people, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned from history, it’s that most things people do to other people aren’t very nice.”
― Jonathan V. Last, The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell

“Above all, if we’d only acknowledge that all of us are mistaken from time to time, then we’d be more willing to forgive others in the hopes they will extend the same measure of charity to us.”
― Jonathan V. Last, The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell