“In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.” IfsMenWayYearsHas BeensMadeTwoPoliticsWealthChanceQualityMillionsEconomyStupidTenMeetingsMerePossessionComplainingNineLiberalismCunningMixturesDisappointPresumptionHigh QualityEminenceAlways Complaining Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?” PeopleMeanIdeasLeftStupidMadnessWingsConservativeLiberalismCall MeCriticizeCritiqueLeft Wing Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.” ModernStupidMirrorsSocialismLiberalism Author:Theodore Beale
“Let's take Pravda in the 1980s. I mean you could have read things in Pravda saying that it was a stupid error to invade Afghanistan: "it was a dumb thing to do, we have to get out, it's costing us too much." I mean that U.S. analog of that would be "extreme liberalism," and it has been pretty well studied.” WellsMeanHas BeensWould BeToo MuchStupidErrorsExtremesDumbThings To DoLiberalismAfghanistanAnalogDumb Things Author:Noam Chomsky
“Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing.” ThinkingKindSpecialStupidGood ThingsLiberalismDisplay Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The more people figure this [liberalism a special kind of stupid] out, the more people that see it and are turned off by it, the more people who find it objectionable, the more people who ask, "Gee, what kind of people," the better off we're gonna be.” PeopleKindAsksSpecialStupidFiguresLiberalismBetter OffTurned Off Author:Rush Limbaugh