I would like to wish the readers of this Blog a happy holiday. Thanks for your support over the past year. Without you this Blog would have been far less lively and thought provoking. Many of you have taught me new things this year and even if you did not, I enjoyed sparring with you. I hope you all have a great 2009, filled with love, light and blessings. Viva the Constitution! Viva democracy! Viva freedom of speech!
This blog deals with political and social issues in South Africa, mostly from the perspective of Constitutional Law. Written by Pierre de Vos
Quote of the week
May 20, 2012 | 11:21 amHow sweet it would be to live among us, if the exterior appearance was always an image of the heart’s tendencies; if decency was a virtue; if our maxims served us as rules; if true philosophy was inseparable from the title of philosopher! But so many qualities too rarely go together, and virtue hardly ever walks in so much pomp. Richness in dress can announce a man with money and elegance a man with taste. The healthy, robust man is recognized by other signs. It is under the rustic clothing of a labourer and not under the gilded frame of a courtesan that one will find physical strength and energy. Finery is no less a stranger to virtue, which is the power and vigour of the soul. The good man is an athlete who delights in fighting naked. He despises all those vile ornaments which hamper the use of his strength, the majority of which were invented only to conceal some deformity. Before art fashioned our manners and taught our passions to speak an affected language, our habits were rustic but natural, and differences in behaviour announced at first glance differences in character. Human nature was not fundamentally better, but men found their security in the ease with which they could see through each other, and this advantage, whose value we no longer feel, spared them many vices. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
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“Viva the Constitution! Viva democracy! Viva freedom of speech!”
Ditto, ditto, ditto, Pierre! And a cool yule to you too!
Thanks, all of you–this is fun and interesting and always thought provoking.
thanks, Pierre, for creating a blog that provokes so much stimulating debate. A day isn’t complete until one has visited Constitutionally Speaking.
Looking forward to more of the same next year.
very new to your blog,,, most interesting, count me in as a regular visitor in 2009
There is nothing more to add.
Feliz Navidad!
Merry Christmas and all that sort of thing!!!!!
Thanks for just being there. Have a wonderful festive season!
Constitutionally Speaking has become part of daily life. Thanks to you Prof and the bloggers! Enjoy the festive season and don’t forget that those beautiful minds deserve a rest!
Season’s Greetings and a merry Yule to everyone!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone
Happy hols from freezing Austria
Thanks Prof. Same to you…