Mark Steyn Quotes

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  • America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

    Land   America   Levels  
  • The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

    Law   Embodiment   Moral  
    Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.203, Regnery Publishing
  • Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

    Strong   War   Party  
  • But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

    Winning   People   Taste  
    Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.373, Regnery Publishing
  • How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

  • How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

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  • Big government makes small citizens.

    Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.90, Regnery Publishing
  • Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

    Ambition   Long   Slumps  
    Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.36, Regnery Publishing
  • [To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

    Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.200, Regnery Publishing
  • Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

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  • Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

    Fall   Home   Opportunity  
  • The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

  • Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

  • Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.

    Stupid   Path   Sometimes  
  • But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

    Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing
  • The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

    War   Civilization   Self  
  • For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

    Government   Self   Needs  
    Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.29, Regnery Publishing
  • Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

  • It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

    Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.73, Regnery Publishing
  • What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

    Fighting   Men   Texas  
  • Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

    Running   Doors   Energy  
  • I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

    Believe   Law   Support  
    "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.
  • Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

    Europe   People   Liberty  
    Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing
  • We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.

  • The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

    Long   Population   Cost  
  • You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

    War   Weapons   Cold  
  • The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

    Blood   Smell   Politics  
  • How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!

  • There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

    Friday   Jobs   Real  
  • The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

    Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.126, Regnery Publishing
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