Jimmy From Brooklyn Quotes

“In our zeal for equality we thought the old warrior aristocrats were enemies of democracy and liberty, and modernity kicked them to the curb. We failed to notice that liberal society (with all its freedoms) was built and survived because of its illiberal supports (i.e., the warrior aristocrats).”
― Jeff Nyquist

“The attending contagion of irrational thought, once unleashed, can spread rapidly through a population, destroying constitutional government and the rule of law (especially if constitutional government is already severely weakened). At present we can see a rising tendency toward magical thinking on the right and the left, where dangerous policies are aggressively pushed as if the future of humanity depended on actions that cannot rationally produce the promised results.”
― J.R.Nyquist

“Readers may wonder what Buchar thinks about the Western response to the collapse of Communism. "Well," he said, "There was one thing I learned that I wasn't aware of before - the level of incompetence in the CIA as far as their knowledge of the Communist system is concerned, the way it operated in Eastern Bloc countries, ignoring the importance of ideology and the level of Soviet infiltration in the agency. Something that Bill Gertz calls the anti-anti-Communist mindset in the agency. That was really shocking for me.”
― J.R.Nyquist