“Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.” YearsBeautifulFacesLeaderMovementYears AgoAngryMeetingsMalesInterviewsFifteenBeautiful LifePro LifeFifteen Years Author:Marvin Olasky
“I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.” YearsAgeChristianAtheismGrewGrew UpYears AgoAtheistMarxist Author:Marvin Olasky
“I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.” StillsRaceFavorsAlternativesPreference Author:Marvin Olasky
“It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.” WayJobsDefined Author:Marvin Olasky
“Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.” LovePeaceStrugglePeacefulInternalsJihadInternal Struggle Author:Marvin Olasky
“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.” HumansPhilosophyCultureHuman BeingsAnimalPowerfulMediaMachinesTreatsCourtMost PowerfulAcademiaHigh 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.” HomeBigsFoundSocialReligiousWhiteIssuesRepublicanDemocratDecadesVotersConservatismEvangelicalChunksWedges 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.” IfsProblemGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulExerciseDifficultySeparationAriseFeaturesAgencyEfficientArrangementsFederal GovernmentPolitical SystemsTolerableFragmentedSeparation Of PowersGovernment Agencies Author:James Q. Wilson
“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.” MenWorldMindHumansMadePoliticalIndividualStageFrontsEnlightenmentAll ThingsMethodPreparedLegacyConsentScopeAmbiguousScientific MethodHuman 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.” PeopleIfsMayLightBreakFireCarBuildingTheoryBrokenWindowLeavingTendenciesRestaurantsBagsTrashSidewalkVandalsFire InsideSquattersBroken Windows Author:James Q. Wilson