Europe Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

10 Europe quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg’s commentary on Europe is sharp and often contrarian; this ten‑line selection offers a quick pulse on his perspective of the continent’s current climate.

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In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the…

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In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

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[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke…

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Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale…

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The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are…

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Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles…

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And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit…

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The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that…

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The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma…

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“I am a conservative in large part because I believe that politics should intrude on life as little as possible. Conservatives surely…

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Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

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Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

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You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than…

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“The nasty racism that infused the progressive eugenics of Margaret Sanger and others has largely melted away. But liberal fascists are still racist in…

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Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

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I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good…

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(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the…

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(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler…

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Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

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The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony,…

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“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…

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In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't…

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“Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.”

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Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

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There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never…

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