John Derbyshire Quotes

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

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.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

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.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

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.

Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

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

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

I never ponder counterfactuals.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.