27 Quotes by John Derbyshire


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    Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

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    I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

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    Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

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    Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

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    Biophobia is as much a part of a politician’s basic equipment as a sharp suit.

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    Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

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    The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias.

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    Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

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