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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

~ Alexander Pope

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When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.

~ Joel Berg

Joel Berg Economy Politics Progressives War

Donald Trump is launching his own nonprofit group: Borders without Doctors.

~ Joel Berg

Joel Berg Politics Progressives Trump

Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it, that have had a major civilizing effect – the feminist movement, the environmental movement, and so on – these are mostly developments of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Their roots might be in the activism of the ‘60s, but the movements themselves developed and extended later. The same is true of the changes in respect for other cultures, rights of oppressed people, and so on. These are quite significant changes. If you compare the United States now to what it was, say, 35 years ago, the changes are quite dramatic. These are changes in popular consciousness that are quite deeply embedded.

~ Noam Chomsky

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Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

~ Criss Jami

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Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman Conservatism Conservatives Evolution Historians History Progressive Progressives Society

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

~ Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter Conviction Convictions Deception Democracy Economics Ideals Lie Lies Political Philosophy Politics Progressives Social Visions

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

~ Thomas Sowell

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Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Ziad K. Abdelnour Dependency Government Life Progressives Young

Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions.

~ Joseph Epstein

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People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

~ A.e. Samaan

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FUCK UNITY!! What a pathetic way of thinking. How arrogant of Progressives to think that my hopes and dreams mirror their hopes and dreams. What an absolute bore.... what an total lack of originality or individuality... I believe in individual liberty. I am an extremist on the topic of individual liberty, precisely because I value original thinking and original accomplishments. Fuck unity of purpose. Fuck collectivism. My life is not your life. I have my own path. Get out of my way.

~ A.e. Samaan

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Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

~ A.e. Samaan

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America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

~ Ron Brackin

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If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a democratic, liberal world whose motto is: “Make choices and manage your choices according to what is good for you,” then there is a built-in tension between that which connects and that which divides. Between the material and the intellectual or ethical. Materialism is not a dirty word, but in this tension between the individual and the material on the one hand, and the communal and the ethical on the other, we are at the end of an age in which the material and the individual are triumphing.

~ Kalid Gilad

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There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Journalism Media Muck Raking Progressives Reform

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

~ A.e. Samaan

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To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

~ Robert Conquest

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Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. These were not people that believed in individual liberty. They certainly didn't believe the individual had the right to chose their own mate freely. They were statists, They were totalitarians at heart.

~ A.e. Samaan

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Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

~ A.e. Samaan

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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Ludwig Von Mises Democrats Progressives Socialism

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

~ Hafiz

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