Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.
Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
The easily embarrassed doesn't learn
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim
Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'
To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.
We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity
America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.
