Unforgettable
Picking just one is painful, so here are three unforgettable morsels from James Burnham in Suicide of the West (John Day Co., 1964)
"Except for mercenaries, saints and neurotics, no one is willing to sacrifice and die for progressive education, medicare, humanity in the abstract, the United Nations and a ten percent rise in Social Security payments."
"Nearly all liberals...invoke the name of Freedom the way a drill sergeant invokes his favorite obsenity."
"For Western civilization in the present condition of the world, the most important practical consequence of the guilt encysted in the liberal ideology and psyche is this: that the liberal, and the group, nation or civilization infected by liberal doctrince and values, are morally disarmed before those whom the liberal regards as less well off than himself. "
"Except for mercenaries, saints and neurotics, no one is willing to sacrifice and die for progressive education, medicare, humanity in the abstract, the United Nations and a ten percent rise in Social Security payments."
"Nearly all liberals...invoke the name of Freedom the way a drill sergeant invokes his favorite obsenity."
"For Western civilization in the present condition of the world, the most important practical consequence of the guilt encysted in the liberal ideology and psyche is this: that the liberal, and the group, nation or civilization infected by liberal doctrince and values, are morally disarmed before those whom the liberal regards as less well off than himself. "
posted by Boz at 7:04 AM
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