Home / Quotes / Quote by Marvin Olasky

Quote by Marvin Olasky

“Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.”

Quote by Marvin Olasky

Author

Marvin Olasky, born on June 12, 1950, is an accomplished editor known for his profound insights into journalism and public affairs. more

You May Also Like

“Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.”

Humans Philosophy Culture Human Beings Animal Powerful Media Machines Treats Court Most Powerful Academia High Ground

Author:Marvin Olasky

“For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.”

Home Bigs Found Social Religious White Issues Republican Democrat Decades Voters Conservatism Evangelical Chunks Wedges

Author:Marvin Olasky

“Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.”

“We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.”

Men World Mind Humans Made Political Individual Stage Fronts Enlightenment All Things Method Prepared Legacy Consent Scope Ambiguous Scientific Method Human Freedom

Author:James Q. Wilson

“Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.”

People Ifs May Light Break Fire Car Building Theory Broken Window Leaving Tendencies Restaurants Bags Trash Sidewalk Vandals Fire Inside Squatters Broken Windows

Author:James Q. Wilson

“In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.”

School Term Mistake Function Making Mistakes Monopoly Public School Insisting

Author:James Q. Wilson

“I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.”

Way Red Tape Administrative Red Lipstick Red Tape

Author:James Q. Wilson

“But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government”

Government Size Federal Government Scope Reducing

Author:James Q. Wilson

“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.”

Believe I Believe Pay Crime Increase Property Rate Violent Violent Crimes

Author:James Q. Wilson

“If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.”

Ifs Has Beens States Done Opinion Support Gone Rights Court Supreme Radical Assumption Supreme Court Public Opinion States Rights Devolution

Author:James Q. Wilson