Europe Quotes by Mark Steyn

8 Europe quotes by Mark Steyn

Steyn’s eight short statements deliver his characteristic commentary on European culture and politics, providing a quick glimpse of his stance.

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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…

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In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing,…

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While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands…

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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the…

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I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United…

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Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's…

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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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“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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“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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“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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