Culture Quotes by Mark Steyn

9 Culture quotes by Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn’s take on culture is captured in nine succinct statements. Their incisive humor provides a quick, thought‑provoking look at his perspective.

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Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes…

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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

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Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one…

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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that…

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...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but…

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I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions…

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the…

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Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which…

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For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,…

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“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the…

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For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or…

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Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab…

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I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.…

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A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam…

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“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe…

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“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other…

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No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing…

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“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If…

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American…

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“You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and…

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“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why…

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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is…

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