"There's a kind of decadence about all this:……" — Mark Steyn
"There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons...."
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56 Quotes by Mark Steyn
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there…
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator,…
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's…
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Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
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We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely…
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy…
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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention…
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Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand…
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up…
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The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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