“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
Equality“Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.”
Respect“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
Equality“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”
Family“To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.”
Age“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”
Happiness“The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.”
Death“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
Religion“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”
Power“The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.”
Religion“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”
Strength“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”
Family“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”
Society“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Alone“The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.”
Respect“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”
Courage“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”
Government“Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.”
Respect“For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.”
Music“Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”
Religion“It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”
Home“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.”
Happiness