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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for July 2025:

Classic:
To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation” – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
— Aldous Huxley, introduction to Samuel Butler, Erewhon, 1934.

Direct:
Your ethics tribunal, if it is staffed by true believers in its aims, is a tinderbox of hysteria. … It can ignite even sodden minds and set them raging in righteous indignation.
— Eliminating Professors, 1998.

Garden moment for July 2025:

Tourists can see Niagara's enchanting landscape — the river, the gorge, the falls, and the escarpment — from WEGO buses on the Canadian side. For a bird's-eye view on the American side, they can be carried aloft by a huge helium balloon.

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