Driven Wisdom

Politics

• There Is No Alternative (TINA).
• Harmony seldom makes a headline.
• No deal is better than a bad deal.
• No taxation without representation.
• In peace play it safe. In war play to win.
• Political correctness is a war on noticing.
• Accuse your enemy of what you are guilty of.
• Stand for something. Or fall for everything.
• When the looting starts, the shooting starts.
• Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.
• We didn't lose the election. We just didn't win it.
• It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes.
• Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.
• Emotional incontinence has become the nation's default character.
• We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
• Treaties are like roses and maidens: they last as long as they last.
• Where you see insanity, I see evil exploiting stupidity and ignorance.
• People who disagree with me hate me. I just think that they are mistaken.
• Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
• When the dust settels, it is never, never, the mobs or bullies whom we honor.
• Pronouns used to tell you a person’s sex. Now they tell you a person’s politics.
• People’s connection to the past constrains the mobs ability to control their future.
• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
• Nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
• The actions of politicians and bureaucrats normally has the opposite effect of what was intended.
• If you don't know what happened in the past you have no way of knowing what works and what doesn't.
• It's not going to stop until the good guys are willing to use overwhelming force against the bad guys.
• We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture, we embrace tolerance, not prejudice.
• One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
• To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
• Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
• There is nothing so good that politicians can't make it bad and nothing so bad that politicians can't make it worse.
• The further in you wade, the more they explain, and the more you listen, the more the weeds begin to tangle your ankles.
• Where there is no law there is no opportunity. Where there is no justice there is no liberty. Where there is no safety there is no future.
• Barbarism is never finally defeated; given propitious circumstances, men and women who seem quite orderly will commit every conceivable atrocity.
• Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
• There is evidence of a harsh but inescapable truth, that the survival of freedom requires great cost and commitment and great personal sacrifice.
• The fundamental rule of political analysis from the point of psychology is, follow the sacredness, and around it is a ring of motivated ignorance.
• They operate in an Alice in Wonderland society where what is known often can't be spoken, and what is spoken is frequently known to be utter nonsense.
• One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
• 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.
• There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.
• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
• This is the most painful cancellation I have had yet. From someone I spent 10 happy years working with, many lovely family dinners and lots and lots of laughs. Someone I thought was a friend.
• First they destroy the statues they don't like. Then they destroy the books they don't like. Then they destroy the people they don't like. This has all happened before and will happen again if unchallenged.