John Derbyshire famous quotes

03-23-2025

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
-- John Derbyshire

#Racism #Sexism #Homophobia
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
-- John Derbyshire

#Faces #Doe #Care
Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
-- John Derbyshire

#New York
Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.
-- John Derbyshire

#Dog #Powerful #Class
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, â€œYou know math, huh? Tell me something Iâ€™ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?â€ I can only reply, â€œThe words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of â€˜infinityâ€™ as if it were a number. Itâ€™s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?â€™ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. â€˜Infinity,â€™ â€˜truth,â€™ â€˜beautyâ€™â€”those are not numbers.
-- John Derbyshire

#Beauty #Math #People
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
-- John Derbyshire

#Lying #Sea #Rolling
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.
-- John Derbyshire

#Spiritual #Kings #Thinking
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.
-- John Derbyshire

#Play #People #Plight
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
-- John Derbyshire

#War #Cold #Conquest
I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.
-- John Derbyshire

#Numbers
The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
-- John Derbyshire

#Bias
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
-- John Derbyshire

#Book #Space #Substance
Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
-- John Derbyshire

#Political #Suits #Politician
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
-- John Derbyshire

#Loneliness #Compassion #Soul
I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.
-- John Derbyshire

#Racist #Way #Illegal
Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency.
-- John Derbyshire

#Real #Character #Writing
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
-- John Derbyshire

#Political #Enemy #World

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