#l

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#available #best #democracies #democracy #disaster

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#cool #country #declining #direction #dorky

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#because #black #especially #eyes #fighting

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am. ↗

— Ishmael Beah

#lose-of-hope #death

Die Religion...ist das Opium des Volkes ↗

— Karl Marx

#religion #religion

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world. ↗

— Isaac Goldberg

#smaller #stage #which #world

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#equivalent #getting #klan #might #moral

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#evil #god #made #power #then

If we say that anyone who "moralizes" must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#effect #morally #must #perfect #say