13 Quotes by Michael Rectenwald

Promote liberty over enforced values, esp. when those values abrogate liberty and otherwise have little to recommend them other than force itself.

The primary characteristic of totalitarian ideologues is essentially moral arrogance, a complete lack of moral humility, and the certain conviction that they themselves are justice incarnate. They thus believe that they are completely justified to exert their will to achieve their desired ends 'by any means necessary'. Such ideologues rejoiced when God was declared 'dead', as such, because now they could assume the authority of God for themselves.

Socialist ideology rationalizes individual failure by laying it at the feet of the system itself, rather than connecting it with its proximate cause, the individual.

People don't often say what they think but rather what they think is permissible.

Successful reformation must allow social justice ideology to remain in existence while it is removed from its current position as policy-maker, arbiter of expression and inquiry, and censor. Only by relegating social justice to the position of one among many other belief systems can the university successfully absorb the creed without remaining hostage to it.

Likewise, if we want to foster real diversity in higher education, we had better consider not only diversity of identity but also diversity of thought and perspective. It is this kind of diversity that we are supposed to recognize and foster in the first place.

Diversity is a code word for uniformity of thought.

Romantic utopianism is the opiate of the leftists.

Art should not be run through ideological councils or committees for approval or banishment.