Kevin D. Williamson quotes

If you've ever been to the monkey house in one of those awful downscale zoos, you know what monkeys - these particular monkeys - are like: They jerk off and fling poo all day, generally using the same hand for both, and they don't do a hell of a lot else, unless there's McDonald's. All day: jerk off, fling poo, jerk off, fling poo, jerk, fling, jerk, fling.Twitter, basically. (Kevin D. Williamson)
The idea that Ilhan Omar could - even as a matter of mass-dunderhead rhetoric - be treated as a non-citizen because the president and his admirers do not like her politics (which are quite unlikeable) does violence to the idea of citizenship per se. In that much, it is fundamentally and literally un-American. View quote
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America is not an idea or a collection of documents, but neither is it a closed ethnolinguistic set. It is a nation in which relations among the people and between the individual and the state are defined by the terms of citizenship. View quote
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Facebook, Google, et al. operate in an almost uniformly Left-Democratic culture, and they heard a great deal from both organized and semi-organized efforts from progressives and left-wing organizations whose sole purpose in life is trying to discredit conservative figures and exclude conservatives from public discourse. View quote
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Because they think of themselves as a special enlightened caste, progressives care almost nothing about process. Process is for the little people. View quote
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Progressives conceive of themselves as a caste apart, a special and specialized group of enlightened men and women whose job it is to organize other people's lives for them, a necessity because those people are too dumb to do it for themselves. View quote
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In reality, economic xenophobia and ordinary xenophobia always end up colliding. The nastier of Europe's anti-immigrant and ethno-nationalist movements argue that ethnic solidarity is necessary to preserve the welfare state. Among ordinary Swedes, the topic of immigrants' - non-Nordic people's - relatively high rates of unemployment and welfare dependency is politically charged. View quote
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What we can and should acknowledge is that there is a difference between moral confidence and moral certitude, and that in both moral and political matters there is always a place for prudence and humility, for the facts of the case and the particulars of the time. A conservatism that fails to account for these is no conservatism at all. View quote
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I am grateful to the men and women of our military for their service, but armies are only expedients, necessary evils. They should be kept out of sight for the same reason I keep the guns out of sight in my home. A military parade does not display greatness-it displays power. And that may be where I most part company with our new nationalists. To my eye, there is more American greatness in a New England town hall than in all of Washington, and more American greatness in an Oregon apple orchard or a Rotary meeting than there is in all the tanks and rockets that ever have been. View quote
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We start from scratch, every generation. History does not bend inevitably toward justice, or freedom, or decency, or even stability. History doesn't do that in Hong Kong, or in Moscow, or in Washington or New York City or Los Angeles. History goes where we push it. And if we don't push, someone else will. View quote
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[T]he broad movement oriented toward advocacy for sexual minorities has become more hysterical and more insistent as the stakes have in general declined. This is characteristic of many similar political movements: We have much cleaner air and water today than we did a generation ago, but the environmental movement is six times as hysterical as it once was. It is a curious thing. (Kevin D. Williamson)
Liars think everybody is lying, cheaters think everybody else is a cheat, and self-serving political hacks who misuse their offices think that that's just how the game is played, that everybody does it. View quote
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"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.” So said Abraham Lincoln in much more difficult times than these. We should resist the urge to treat our presidents as god-emperors, but Lincoln testifies to the fact that presidential words matter. Alas, so does Donald Trump. View quote
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Jerk off, fling poo, jerk off, fling poo, jerk, fling, jerk, fling.I hate monkeys.This is their story. View quote
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