38 quotes found
“What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The worlds stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectuals theories serves as proof of humanitys ir...”
“Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery.”
“Does rejecting feminism mean rejecting women's equality? No, because that's not what feminism is about. Rejecting feminism means recognizing that women don't need feminism to make them equal to men...”
“It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conservative shell, unless he feels discomfort there.”
“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
“Is being a Republican really about touting "wholesome" conservative values? Or a particular income strata? And when you say you are 'conservative', what are you really 'conserving'?And what does it...”
“Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.”
“If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, over-taxing, anarchistic, controlling, rudderless, chaos-prone, pedantic, unrealistic, hypocritical, clueless, politically co...”
“When the focus becomes What would Jesus do? instead of What has Jesus done? the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.”
“And while its nice of you to want to call us modern or moderate, well do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals the more modera...”
“The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man...”
“There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the yea...”
“This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.”
“In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.”
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.”
“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.”
“The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.”
“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.”
“That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.”
“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'tre of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and...”
