Today, wanting someone else’s money is called ‘need,’ wanting to keep your own money is called ‘greed,’ and ‘compassion’ is when politicians arrange the transfer.
Tag: Joe Sobran
(1946-2010) American journalist and writer, formerly with National Review magazine and a syndicated columnist. “Perhaps the finest columnist of our generation.” — Pat Buchanan
Censorship
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.
The de-evolution of schooling
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.
Forms of tyranny
Tyranny seldom announces itself … In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.
Small-minded rulers
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.
Corruption in government
Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?
The urge to centralize
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.
Government intervention
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
Greed
Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money — only for wanting to keep your own money.
Communism and socialism
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.