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" Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. "

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" As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. "

" Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. "

" People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. "

" Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do. "

" Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. "

" The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. "

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" The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too. "

" There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. "

" The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.' "

" The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. "

" Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. "

" To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. "

" For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them. "

" Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. "

" I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health. "

" In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. "

" The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. "

" One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. "

" Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views. "

" Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. "

" Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel. "

" Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme. "

" From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. "

" Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. "

" Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life. "