Political quotes

[Navarro]

There, in a nutshell, is the sum of the New Left’s commitment: We know nothing of the socialist future, save only that it is both necessary and desirable. Our concern is with the ‘compelling’ case against the present that leads us to destroy what we lack the knowledge to replace.

A blind faith drags the radical from ‘struggle’ to ‘struggle’, reassuring him that everything done in the name of ‘social justice’ is well done and that all destruction of existing power will lead him towards his goal. He desires to leap from the tainted world that surrounds him into the pure but unknowable realm of human emancipation.

This leap into the Kingdom of Ends is a leap of thought, which can never be mirrored in reality. ‘Revolutionary praxis’ therefore confines itself to the work of destruction, having neither the power nor the desire to perceive, in concrete terms, the end towards which it labours.
- Sir Roger Scruton

 

[Husky_Khan]

“A world is supported by four things … the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valour of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”

-Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune

 

[Husky_Khan]

“When science and rationalism masquerade as ethics they produce moral disasters like the French Revolutionary Terror and the Napoleonic dictatorship.”

- Paul Johnson in Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

 

[Husky_Khan]

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."

- Conan, in Robert E. Howard's Tower of the Elephant

 

[Marduk]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "Before the camps, I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn`t be noticed—nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps one learns: if you belong to a successful nation you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity—too bad for you."

 

[Navarro]

 

[Husky_Khan]

"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

- John F. Kennedy, February 18th, 1958

And of course the Andrew Yang abbreviation of it for his campaign slogan.

"Our vision is Not Left. It's Not Right. It's Forward."

 

[Navarro]

 

[Navarro]

A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon.
- G. K. Chesterton

 

[Husky_Khan]

Here's a spicy quote:

"You in Mississippi, have but little experienced as yet the horrors of the war. You have seen but little of the savage manner in which it is waged by your barbarous enemies. It has been my fortune to witness it in all its terrors; in a part of the country where old men have been torn from their homes, carried into captivity and immured in distant dungeons, and where delicate women have been insulted by a brutal soldiery and forced to even to cook for the dirty Yankee invaders; where property has been wantonly destroyed, the country ravaged, and every outrage committed. And it is with these people that our fathers formed a union and a solemn compact. There is indeed a difference between the two peoples. Let no man hug the delusion that there can be renewed association between them. Our enemies are a traditionless and a homeless race; from the time of Cromwell to the present moment they have been disturbers of the peace of the world. Gathered together by Cromwell from the bogs and fens of the North of Ireland and of England, they commenced by disturbing the peace of their own country; they disturbed Holland, to which they fled, and they disturbed England on their return. They persecuted Catholics in England, and they hung Quakers and witches in America. Having been hurried into a war with a people so devoid of every mark of civilization, you have no doubt wondered that I have not carried out the policy, which I had intended should be our policy, of fighting our battles on the fields of the enemy instead of suffering him to fight them on ours. This was not the result of my will, but of the power of the enemy. They had at their command all the accumulated wealth of seventy years- -the military stores which had been laid up during that time. They had grown rich from the taxes wrung from you for the establishing and supporting their manufacturing institutions. We have entered upon a conflict with a nation contiguous to us in territory, and vastly superior to us in numbers. In the face of these facts the wonder is not that we have done little, but that we have done so much."

I love the emboldened part especially from Jefferson Davis on describing those "Northern Peoples."

 

[Navarro]

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." -Thomas Sowell

 

[Navarro]

"Were we to define the right as the force which leans from the left in an opposite direction, then we should have succumbed to the most dangerous feature of leftist rhetoric. We too should be seeing politics as a ‘struggle’ between opposing forces an ‘either/or’, poised between two equally absolute and equally final goals. Nevertheless, the labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ are inevitably forced on us, and we must venture a description — however partial and however brief — of the ‘right-wing’ attitude. The Right believes in responsible rather than impersonal government; in the autonomy and personality of institutions; and in the rule of law. It recognizes a distinction between state and civil society, and believes that the second should arise, in general, from the unforced interaction of freely contracting individuals, moderated by custom, tradition and a respect for authority and law. Power, for the Right, is an evil only when abused. For power arises naturally from human intercourse, and is merely the unobjectionable consequence of an arrangement whose virtue lies elsewhere."
- Sir Roger Scruton

 

[Bear Ribs]

Quotes indicating the relative understanding of guns Gun Control Advocates have:

"Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door."
Joe Biden, Democratic Presidential Candidate, who apparently hates his mailman, explaining how to get yourself arrested. Yeah, most of his advice is actually to do things that are illegal and highly dangerous and people have been arrested for following his instructions.

Really can't transcribe this next one without fifteen pauses that look like I'm editing the quote, because Biden is having so much trouble finishing a sentence without wandering, but the upshot is that he advises women that 12 gauge shotguns are easier to fire than AR-15s (bwuh?), more accurate (extra bwuh?), and you can solve any home invasion by walking onto your balcony and firing two shotgun blasts into the air (highly illegal almost everywhere).




"You know, they make fun of my saying about use a shotgun if someone’s invading your home – guess what, use a shotgun on someone invading your home and you don’t kill your kids – use an AR-15, it goes through your wall and it can kill your kid in the bedroom"
Joe Biden again, who understands that a shotgun will shoot through a door but believes drywall will stop it. Also apparently unaware that AR rounds designed not to over penetrate exist.




One of these bullets, as you saw, have an incendiary device on the tip of it, which is a heat seeking device.

So, you don’t shoot deer with a bullet that size. If you do you could cook it at the same time.
Patricia Eddington, Assembly Woman D-NY, who doesn't get the difference between heat-seeking and incendiary and... thinks you can cook a deer by shooting it I guess?




"I will tell you these are ammunition, they're bullets, so the people who have those now they're going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available."
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), who doesn't understand the difference between a magazine and a bullet, and thinks magazines aren't reusable. I'm guessing she got her education on guns from a video game where you pick up magazines to reload.




“This is a ghost gun. This right here has the ability with a 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. 30 magazine clip within half a second,”
Senator Kevin de León, (D-CA) Yeah, this is the Mona Lisa, the final word in gun ignorance. He doesn't know what bullets, clips, calibers, magazines, or ghost guns are but he's willing to speak out about all of them. I love the blink the lawman behind him makes when he starts talking. Note that, assuming he means 30 bullets in half a second, he thinks his "ghost gun" fires faster than most real-life rotary miniguns do. The M134 can beat it if fired at it's theoretical maximum (50 rounds per half second) but normally fires more slowly since that's, y'know, the theoretical maximum and not actual performance.

 

[DarthOne]

 

[Laskar]

"I will tell you these are ammunition, they're bullets, so the people who have those now they're going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available."
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), who doesn't understand the difference between a magazine and a bullet, and thinks magazines aren't reusable. I'm guessing she got her education on guns from a video game where you pick up magazines to reload.

Nice! I thought that quote had been lost to the interwebz.

Diana DeGette's office would later send out a press release saying that she had misspoken, and meant to refer to high capacity clips which unlike magazines have no feeding device and cannot be reloaded. It then accused gun rights advocates of playing semantics to muddy the waters.

Talk about digging yourself deeper.

 

[Navarro]

“He could not help feeling a twinge of panic. It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words was not more dangerous than the initial act of opening the diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether. He did not do so, however, because he knew that it was useless. Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper — the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”
- George Orwell, 1984

 

[DarthOne]

"There is no need, even today when men seem to have become too weak to face the truth, to soften the realities of the next life; to those--be they Nihilists or more moderate humanists--who presume to fathom the Will of the Living God, and to judge Him for His "cruelty," one may answer with an unequivocal assertion of something in which most of them profess to believe: the dignity of man. God has called us, not to the modern "heaven" of repose and sleep, but to the full and deifiying glory of the sons of God; and if we, whom our God thinks worthy to receive it, reject this call, --then better for us the flames of Hell, the torment of that last and awful proof of man's high calling and of God's unquenchable Love for all men, than the nothingness to which men of small faith, and the Nihilism of our age, aspire. Nothing less than Hell is worthy of a man, if he be not worthy of Heaven"

From Nihlism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

 

[Harlock]

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

[Husky_Khan]

"Just a thought, but relying on mob intimidation, violence, the threat of personal ruination, and the power of giant monopolistic corporations to terrify everyone into thinking the same way probably suggests you’re not on the “right side of history.”

- Paul Joseph Watson

 

[Husky_Khan]

“Let us say to the immigrant not that we hope he will learn English, but that he has got to learn it. Let the immigrant who does not learn it go back. He has got to consider the interest of the United States or he should not stay here. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend upon his knowing English and observing American standards. The employer cannot be permitted to regard him only as an industrial asset.

“We must in every way possible encourage the immigrant to rise, help him up, give him a chance to help himself. If we try to carry him he may well prove not well worth carrying. We must in turn insist upon his showing the same standard of fealty to this country and to join with us in raising the level of our common American citizenship.

“If I could I would have the kind of restriction which would not allow any immigrant to come here unless I was content that his grandchildren would be fellow-citizens of my grandchildren. They will not be so if he lives in a boarding house at $2.50 per month with ten other boarders and contracts tuberculosis and contributes to the next generation a body of citizens inferior not only morally and spiritually but also physically.”

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1 February 1916 in a speech to the National Americanization Society