Civilization Quote by Heather Mac Donald

“A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.” quote by Heather Mac Donald — Download Open image

“A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.”

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Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

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Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

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Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.

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Hispanics' welfare consumption - and their affinity for the Democratic message - will decline over time as they climb the economic ladder.

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Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.

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A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

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For decades, liberal criminologists have tried to corroborate the Left's cherished belief that the criminal-justice system responds to similarly situated whites and blacks unequally.

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as…

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