Joseph Sobran

“If you want to know who is ruling you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”

“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.”

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”

“What is called 'social justice' is not justice. It is a demand for vengeance on behalf of the successful.”

“A 'racist' is a man who is winning an argument with a liberal.”

“People who don't want to be 'judgmental' are people who don't want to be judged.”

“The state is a protection racket. It robs its subjects, calls the loot 'taxation,' and calls the robbery 'law.'”

“An enemy is not a person with whom you disagree. He is a person with whom you are at war.”

“The rights of the people who have to obey the laws are not as important as the convenience of the people who enforce them.”

“A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.”

“The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.”

“The sexual revolution is not a revolution. It’s a counter-revolution. It’s a return to the sexual chaos of the pagan world.”

“To be 'radical' is to grasp things by the root.”

“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”

“The whole point of a demagogue is to make you feel that you’re part of a great moral crusade, a crusade against evil.”