Quote

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.

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
Sometimes
Nation
Societies
Stupid
Current
Takes
Currents
Path
Survive
Nations
Seriously
Flourishes
Become
Obama
Dismal
Wells
Certainly
Rhetorical
Well
Along
Advanced

More quotes by Mark Steyn

Image
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.
Mark Steyn
Image
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None
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
I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.
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
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
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
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.
Mark Steyn
Image
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
Mark Steyn
Image
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.
Mark Steyn
Image
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
Mark Steyn
Image
There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.
Mark Steyn
Image
America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
Mark Steyn
Image
When the family dies, the nation follows.
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
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?
Mark Steyn
Image
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
Mark Steyn
Image
Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.
Mark Steyn
Image
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
Mark Steyn
Image
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.
Mark Steyn