Conrad Black Professions : Life peer Born : August 25, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 52 quotes by Conrad Black We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity. Conrad Black views numbers commitment All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. Conrad Black rehabilitation punishment prison There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness. Conrad Black government essence believe The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. Conrad Black government hypocrite people [Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people. Conrad Black underachieving policy people There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation. Conrad Black internet newspapers influence The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. Conrad Black republic soul eating A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Conrad Black quests taken war Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion. Conrad Black has-beens greed opinion Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. Conrad Black psychology three doe Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. Conrad Black terrorist nations survival The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional. Conrad Black envy soul mind I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. Conrad Black bucks good-luck yesterday I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards. Conrad Black cartoon philosophy long Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. Conrad Black company loyalty personality The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance. Conrad Black government determination people For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. Conrad Black term america world I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator. Conrad Black issues credibility perception Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. Conrad Black assault real war I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. Conrad Black trying war Similar Authors Anthony Giddens life-peer Alec Broers, Baron Broers life-peer Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford life-peer Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar life-peer Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking life-peer Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria life-peer All Authors
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