John Leo Quotes

#1. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

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#2. If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

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#3. The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."

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#4. I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

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#5. We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

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#6. By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

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#7. Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

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#8. Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

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#9. Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.

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#10. Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

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#11. Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

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#12. The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

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#13. The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

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#14. No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

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#15. You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

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#16. A meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

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#17. Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

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