Ilana Mercer quotes

The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper. (Ilana Mercer)
Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer
[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania. View quote
Ilana Mercer
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility. View quote
Ilana Mercer
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer
He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer
A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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)
Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism. View quote
Ilana Mercer
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another. (Ilana Mercer)
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly. View quote
Ilana Mercer
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.) View quote
Ilana Mercer
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. View quote
Ilana Mercer