Quote

The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

Mark Steyn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Steyn
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: December 8
Film Critic
Journalist
Music Critic
Pundit
Writer
City of Toronto
Feel
Countries
Prius
Feels
Places
Faraway
Real
Death
Environmentalism
Good
Order
Starve
Always
Reason
Victims
People
Firsts
Actual
First
Developing
Country
Victim

More quotes by Mark Steyn

Image
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
Mark Steyn
Image
Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
Mark Steyn
Image
We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.
Mark Steyn
Image
Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?
Mark Steyn
Image
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
Mark Steyn
Image
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
Mark Steyn
Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
Mark Steyn
Image
When the family dies, the nation follows.
Mark Steyn
Image
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
Mark Steyn
Image
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
Mark Steyn
Image
It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
Mark Steyn
Image
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.
Mark Steyn
Image
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?
Mark Steyn
Image
If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.
Mark Steyn
Image
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable
Mark Steyn
Image
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.
Mark Steyn
Image
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?
Mark Steyn
Image
Mr Hughes's current claim of bisexuality has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.
Mark Steyn
Image
General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.
Mark Steyn
Image
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
Mark Steyn