--- title: "16 Mean Quotes By Joseph Sobran" description: "16 Mean quotes by Joseph Sobran. Plus more from Joseph Sobran and more Mean sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/joseph-sobran-6902_college_the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to_1830804.jpg" --- > [The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to-give-you-the-correct-view-of/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/joseph-sobran-6902_college_the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to_1830804.jpg) > [The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/the-attempt-to-silence-a-man-is-the-greatest-honor-you-can-bestow-on/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/joseph-sobran-6902_fear_the-attempt-to-silence-a-man-is-the-grea_1955392.jpg) > [An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/an-anti-semite-used-to-mean-a-man-who-hated-jews-now-it-means-a-man/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37d/joseph-sobran-6902_anti_an-anti-semite-used-to-mean-a-man-who-ha_2779896.jpg) > [Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/freedom-has-ceased-to-be-a-birthright-it-has-come-to-mean-whatever-we/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/joseph-sobran-6902_birthright_freedom-has-ceased-to-be-a-birthright-it_1901440.jpg) > [When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/when-liberals-clamor-for-diversity-they-don-t-necessarily-mean-they/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75e/joseph-sobran-6902_clamor_when-liberals-clamor-for-diversity-they_3218020.jpg) > [Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/freedom-is-coming-to-mean-little-more-than-the-right-to-ask-permission/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddb/joseph-sobran-6902_freedom_freedom-is-coming-to-mean-little-more-th_1913021.jpg) > [The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/the-liberal-understanding-of-the-separation-of-church-and-state-means/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/joseph-sobran-6902_areas_the-liberal-understanding-of-the-separat_608326.jpg) > [Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/now-whatever-you-think-of-the-liberal-agenda-on-its-merits-until-very/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/207/joseph-sobran-6902_agendas_now-whatever-you-think-of-the-liberal-ag_1673855.jpg) > [Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/because-the-state-can-no-longer-protect-us-from-crime-it-wants-to/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/joseph-sobran-6902_amendment_because-the-state-can-no-longer-protect_535036.jpg) > [Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/need-now-means-wanting-someone-else-s-money-greed-means-wanting-to/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/joseph-sobran-6902_compassion_need-now-means-wanting-someone-else-s-mo_2968325.jpg) > [Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/controlling-the-interpretation-of-the-constitution-is-vital-to-the/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6d/joseph-sobran-6902_agendas_controlling-the-interpretation-of-the-co_193471.jpg) > [Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/like-psychoanalysis-constitutional-jurisprudence-has-become-a-game/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/joseph-sobran-6902_constitution_like-psychoanalysis-constitutional-juris_2078261.jpg) > [Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/government-has-ceased-to-mean-upholding-and-reinforcing-the/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/joseph-sobran-6902_character_government-has-ceased-to-mean-upholding_197349.jpg) > [Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/liberalism-is-really-piecemeal-socialism-and-socialism-always-attacks/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/joseph-sobran-6902_authority_liberalism-is-really-piecemeal-socialism_2595689.jpg) > [A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/a-belief-in-moral-absolutes-should-always-make-us-more-not-less/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/joseph-sobran-6902_absolutes_a-belief-in-moral-absolutes-should-alway_1115805.jpg) > [In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/in-a-few-more-days-we-will-celebrate-xmas-the-day-we-commemorate-the/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/joseph-sobran-6902_associates_in-a-few-more-days-we-will-celebrate-xma_2985220.jpg) ## Other authors on Mean ## More by Joseph Sobran > [Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/government-is-the-agent-of-those-who-are-too-refined-to-do-their-own/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/liberalism-s-fatal-flaw-is-that-it-has-no-permanent-norms-only-a/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/altering-the-constitution-has-become-the-daily-business-of-the/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/the-prevailing-notion-is-that-the-state-should-be-neutral-as-to/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/controlling-the-interpretation-of-the-constitution-is-vital-to-the/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/government-has-ceased-to-mean-upholding-and-reinforcing-the/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/the-chances-of-your-being-harmed-by-terrorists-are-mathematically/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/liberals-have-a-new-wish-every-time-their-latest-wish-is-granted/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/politics-is-the-conspiracy-of-the-unproductive-but-organized-against/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [ ...\[T\]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/t-he-constitution-conferred-only-a-few-specific-powers-on-the-federal/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [ ...\[T\]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/t-oday-s-washington-is-about-as-attentive-to-the-tenth-amendment-as/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/i-call-the-present-system-post-constitutional-america-as-i-sometimes/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/most-americans-aren-t-the-sort-of-citizens-the-founding-fathers/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/because-the-state-can-no-longer-protect-us-from-crime-it-wants-to/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) > [Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/some-people-don-t-mind-a-little-constitutional-sophistry-in-a-good/) [Joseph Sobran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-sobran/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mean/joseph-sobran/#itemlist", "name": "16 Mean Quotes By Joseph Sobran", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joseph Sobran" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-sobran/the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to-give-you-the-correct-view-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/joseph-sobran-6902_college_the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to_1830804.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/joseph-sobran-6902_college_the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to_1830804.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/joseph-sobran-6902_college_the-purpose-of-a-college-education-is-to_1830804.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as…” — Joseph Sobran", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. 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