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"People are sometimes confused about the apparent contradictions in that wider world: What do, say, open borders have to do with the trannification of the school system? Well, it's not difficult. What they have in common, throughout the West, is chaos: you get on the bus and a 'migrant' stabs you; you send your little girl off to school and she comes back a little boy; your boy gets picked for the rugby team and drops dead on the pitch; you could really use a break, but the airport is closed.
The easiest way to figure out the purpose of public policy is to look at the universal outcome: the abolition of even the possibility of normal life." — Mark Steyn
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"When I was on the other side of the wall, I never really liked the term 'fake news'. Now that I am on the inside, and I can see what they’re reporting, I think the term 'fake news' probably isn’t strong enough."
— U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent "Socialism is the visionary younger brother of an almost decrepit despotism, whose heir it wants to be....It desires a wealth of executive power, as only despotism had it; indeed, it outdoes everything in the past by striving for the downright destruction of the individual, which it sees as an unjustified luxury of nature, and which it intends to improve into an expedient organ of the community....[Socialism] needs the most submissive subjugation of all citizens of the absolute state....It secretly prepares for reigns of terror, and drives the word 'justice' like a nail into the heads of the semieducated masses, to rob them completely of their reason (after this reason has already suffered a great deal from its semieducation) and to give them a good conscience for the evil game they are supposed to play."
— Friedrich Nietzsche “What the gentleman seeks, he seeks within himself; what the small man seeks, he seeks in others.”
— Confucious (The Analects, XV.21) "Vaccine worship looks like religious worship...I take a drug, put the word vaccine on it, and magically and miraculously it's perfect, like it came directly from God."
— Robert Barnes "A person's wisdom lights up his face⸺and the boldness of his face is transformed."
— Ecclesiastes 8:1 "Diversity is where nations go to die."
— Mark Steyn [I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!]
"Aesthetic interest does not stem from our passing desires: it reveals what we are and what we value. Taste, like style, is the man himself." — Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture, 1998 "The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.
The presumption that civilization, progress, and improvement emanate from the operation of some mythical factors—in the Marxian philosophy, the material productive forces—shaping the minds of men in such a way that certain ideas are successively produced contemporaneously in them, is an absurd fable." —Ludwig Von Mises, Theory and History, 1957 "Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us."
--Descartes "Being that reason belongs to everyone but good judgment to only a few, man is prone to every kind of illusion." --Schopenhauer |
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