"The left is entering a new phase of……" — Charles Krauthammer
"The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced."
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120 Quotes by Charles Krauthammer
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
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Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its…
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The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate…
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[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick…
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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much…
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept…
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals…
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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think…
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Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to…
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History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of…
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Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes…
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If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong --…
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More Agitation Quotes
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The…
— Alfred Adler
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up…
— Lord Byron
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
— John Dewey
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and…
— Dalai Lama
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let…
— Dalai Lama
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
— Edward Hoagland
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a…
— Judith Orloff
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I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between…
— Thomas Jefferson
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment;…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that,…
— Danielle LaPorte
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