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Ilana Mercer
295 quotes
“The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liar, liar, abaya on fire,” WorldNetDaily.com, April 17, 2002.
“Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vices are not crimes,” WorldNetDaily.com, May 8, 2002.
“From the fact that many libertarians believe that the state has no legitimacy, they arrive at the position that anything the state does is illegitimate. This is a logical confusion. Consider the murderer who happens on a scene of a rape while fleeing the law, saves the woman, and pounds the rapist. Is this good deed illegitimate because performed by a murderer?”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Libertarian Wrangling,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 31, 2002.
“A brave nation fights because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Betraying Brave Boys,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 26, 2003.
“Sexual exhibitionism—homosexual or heterosexual—is anathema. The heroic and creative inner struggle of an older generation of Gay Greats, exemplified by the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White, was in the Greek tradition: silent and stoic, principled yet private.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'AYN RAND, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND HUMAN LIBERATION,'” WorldNetDaily.com, July 9, 2004
“Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Coddling Killers," The American Spectator, December 29, 2004.
“Race and crime can be discussed as long as the topic is framed in ‘root-causes’ terms: stick to the Three Ps—patriarchy, poverty, and powerlessness.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Coddling Killers, The American Spectator, December 29, 2004
“Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Border Invasion Abroad, Border Betrayal at Home,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 16, 2004;
“In a free society, the ‘vision thing’ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary’ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government... the poorer and less free the people.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His Rhetoric, Our Reality,” Antiwar.com, January 26, 2005.
“Healthy patriotism is associated with robust particularism – petty provincialism, if you like – and certainly not with the deracinated globalism exhibited by our GI Joes and Janes.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The International Highway to Hell,” Antiwar.com, March 9, 2005.
“The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As She Lay Dying," WorldNetDaily.com, March 26, 2005.
“Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unlearned Rabbi Rages at Ratzinger, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 29, 2005.
“Adding an overarching tier of tyrants—the EU—to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adieu to the Evil EU" Antiwar.com, June 10, 2005.
“Our adventurous foreign policy might be a necessary precondition for Muslim aggression but it is far from a sufficient one.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Islamikazes' in Our Midst,"WorldNetDaily.com, July 19, 2005.
“The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MacKinnon's Textual Harassment" The American Conservative, January 16, 2006.
“The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shafting Boys," WorldNetDaily.com, January 27, 2006.
“Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who’ve heeded, not hijacked, Islam.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wafa Wows the West (But Not Muslims and Media)," WorldNetDaily.com, March 17, 2006.
“The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We Are the World,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 31, 2006.
“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Party of Traitors," WorldNetDaily.com, May 26, 2006.
“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State’s pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police’s violations of privacy—and private property—were the object of their anger and activism.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Brokeback Mountain' Revisited," WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.
“According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,’ and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ‘sex-addict.’”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mel's 'Malady,' Foxman's Fetish," WorldNetDaily.com, August 4, 2006.
“On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reincarnation of the Reds," WorldNetDaily.com, December 29, 2006, The Colorado Springs Gazette, January 17, 2007, and The Orange County Register, "The Reds Have Become Greens," January 19, 2007.
“Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Genocide in Democratic South Africa,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 19, 2007;
“Those of us who want the U.S. to stay solvent—and out of the affairs of others—recognize that sovereign nation-states that resist, not enable, our imperial impulses, are the best hindrance to hegemonic overreach.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Speaker vs. The Decider,” The Orange County Register, April 10, 2007.
“Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state’s laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: That Spot of Bother on the Border,” WorldNetDaily.com, May 4, 2007.
“The problem with so many libertarian formulations is that they do not respect reality. Rather, they hold up the libertarian ideal, lament its unattainablility, and refuse to debate the issue until the ideal is achieved. That's intellectually lazy. It's also an affront to reality, the rational man's anchor.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Work Open-Border Libertarians Won't Do," "WorldNetDaily.com", June 15, 2007.
“Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 Movie Gems Amid a Lot of Hollywood Hooey," WorldNetDaily.com, July 6, 2007.
“Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of Vick, Man is the Only Top Dog," Orange County Register, September 2, 2007.
“Like it or not, the modern marvel that was South Africa—with its space program and skyscrapers—was not the handiwork of the black nationalist movement now dismantling it; but the creation of those persecuted, pale, patriarchal Protestants.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Erasing The Afrikaner Nation," WorldNetDaily.com, November 23, 2007.
“[Ron] Paul’s vision is as close to The Good Life as we could hope to come in the current ideological climate. Only tinny ideologues encased in worthless ideological armor – worthless because it exists in the arid arena of their minds, not on earth – would turn their noses up at the prospect of Paul.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: High Priests of Pomposity Pan Ron Paul," WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2008.
“Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of the Fence,"WorldNetDaily.com, April 4, 2008.
“[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defense of the Fence," WorldNetDaily.com, April 4, 2008.
“Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A July Fourth Toast to Thomas Jefferson—And the Anglo-Saxon Tradition,” VDARE.com, July 4, 2008.
“Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country’s laws.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joe Horn: Wanted Man…And a Hero,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 4, 2008.
“Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much–maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Goods on Gas," WorldNetDaily.com, July 13, 2008.
“Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama—his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence—these came from Kansas, not Kenya.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Big Lie About Obama and Race," WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2009.
“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Addicted to that Rush,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 6, 2009.
“If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barack Against the Boys," WorldNetDaily.com, March 13, 2009.
“Whether they are armed with bombs or bacteria, stopping weaponized individuals from harming others ─ intentionally or unintentionally ─ falls perfectly within the purview of the “night-watchman state of classical-liberal theory”.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Swine Are Loose,” Taki’s Magazine, May 2, 2009.
“The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life, Liberty, and Property,” WorldNetDaily.com and Taki’s Magazine, May 15, 2009.
“Keynes was to economics as Katrina was to New Orleans.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Seeking honorable Hondurans for Hire,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 10, 2009.
“Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands. … 'Rights, as our founding fathers conceived them, are not claims to economic goods, but freedoms of action.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Authentic Asstroturfers,” WorldNetDaily.com and Taki’s Magazine, August 14, 2009.
“Still – and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary – Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: B. Hussein in History Wonderland,” WorldNetDaily.com and Taki’s Magazine, August 21, 2009.
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life in the Oink Sector,” WorldNetDaily.com, September 25, 2009.
“Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Make me Thankful: Don’t Enlist!” WorldNetDaily.com, November 27, 2009.
“There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No More Making Whoopy in the Military?” Barely A Blog, December 23, 2009.
“From the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their healthcare, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right. A man's life, liberty and the products of his labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Defunct Foundations of the Republic,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 1, 2010.
“Liberty is not an aggregate social project. Every individual has rights. And rights give rise to obligations between all men, including those who are in power. That men band in a collective called 'government' doesn't give them license to violate individual rights.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Defunct Foundations of the Republic,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 1, 2010.
“The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Palin Third-Party?” WorldNetDaily.com, January 15, 2010.
“Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital — people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”
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Recorded in: Beck, Wilders, and His Booster’s Blind Spot,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 12, 2010.