The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism. Conrad Black More Quotes by Conrad Black More Quotes From 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 viewsnumberscommitment All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. Conrad Black rehabilitationpunishmentprison 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 governmentessencebelieve 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 governmenthypocritepeople [Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people. Conrad Black underachievingpolicypeople There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation. Conrad Black internetnewspapersinfluence The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. Conrad Black republicsouleating 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 queststakenwar Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion. Conrad Black has-beensgreedopinion Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. Conrad Black psychologythreedoe Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. Conrad Black terroristnationssurvival 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 envysoulmind I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. Conrad Black bucksgood-luckyesterday 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 cartoonphilosophylong Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. Conrad Black companyloyaltypersonality 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 governmentdeterminationpeople For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. Conrad Black termamericaworld 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 issuescredibilityperception Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. Conrad Black assaultrealwar I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. Conrad Black tryingwar
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