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“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”

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James Burnham was an American political leader born on November 22, 1905, and died on July 28, 1987. He had a profound impact on the fields of political theory, international relations, and conservative thought. more

“Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.”

“The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.”

Causes Brain Effects Sequence

Author:Corliss Lamont

“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.”

Men Believe Choices I Believe Decision Ethical Freedom Of Choice True Freedom Prerogative

Author:Corliss Lamont

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.”

Self Character Acting Subjects Capacity Determined Coercion True Freedom True Character

Author:Corliss Lamont

“Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.”

Men Two Moments Feelings Choices Decision Finals Convinced Significant

Author:Corliss Lamont

“Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.”

Humans Action Human Beings Fronts Movement Ongoing Advancing

Author:Corliss Lamont

“The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.”

Courses Willing Ethics Various Realms

Author:Corliss Lamont

“There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.”

Giving Humans Form Term Imagination Human Beings Creating Humanism Immortality Cosmos Humanist Worldview Reins

Author:Corliss Lamont

“As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.”

Knows Different Style Clothings Clothing Style

Author:Juice Newton

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