“Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.”
Dennis Prager
“One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do”
Jonah Goldberg
“If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways... and we all--can be "liberated." The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions--the vision--which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback”
Thomas Sowell
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!”
William Hazlitt
“Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If the U.S. administration sticks to international law and listens carefully to the world public opinion and to the opinion of its own people, it should not embark on any aggression against Iraq,”
Naji Sabri