John Derbyshire Quotes

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• Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
• I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable…
• Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
• Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland…
• I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are…
• Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
• Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
• Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion…
• Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
• Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
• Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
• Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,…
• I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.
• The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

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