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Politics Quotes by Jonah Goldberg
- Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it…
- Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show,…
- The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years,…
- Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.
- ...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
- Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy…
- Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent…
- Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the…
- [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
- Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
- But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.
- Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things…
- Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism
- When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted,…
- Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and…
- In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
- Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush…
- The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle