Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
Today’s Feast Days
4 February
Education authorities, as opposed to teachers, … do in fact sacrifice the children to what they consider the good of the State by teaching them “patriotism,” i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist
“Freedom in Society”—Sceptical Essays (1928)


