"I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees……" — John Derbyshire
"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 and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love."
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14 Quotes by John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire has 14 quotes on this site.
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Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
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Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
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Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more…
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I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant…
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Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
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Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
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Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to…
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Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
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Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
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Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
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Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that…
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I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.
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More Compassion Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
— Gary Bauer
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