Ilana Mercer Quotes

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

A brave nation fights only because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

B.B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.

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.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

Think of mass immigration into America as a global 'right of return.'

Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.

Obamacare is a marketplace in the same way the Knockout Game is a game.

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

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.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.