“an essential distinction must be drawn between intellect and what I’ll call “intellectualism.” For my purposes throughout the book, the former is the use of one’s mind to discover the rightful answers. The latter, on the other hand, is the use of one’s mind only to conjure clever explanations for what is already believed.”
― KinderGarden Of Eden
― KinderGarden Of Eden
“income inequality” was actually the issue, why is there such outrage at the oil and pharmaceutical company executives who at least keep us warm at night and heal our sick as they take our money, but not a protester to be found questioning the career politicians who produce nothing and yet have somehow become multimillionaires just about all?”
― KinderGarden Of Eden
― KinderGarden Of Eden
“clever Modern Liberals became academics and journalists, entertainers and psychologists, politicians and community organizers, “rights activists” and social workers, and other such things where words were the entirety of both their product and their effort.”
― KinderGarden Of Eden
― KinderGarden Of Eden
“Can anyone even conceive of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank being asked to return for a second day of work at a factory, a farm or anyplace else where verbal nimbleness was of no use?”
― KinderGarden Of Eden
― KinderGarden Of Eden
“the Holocaust suggested to many that reason is the most monstrous of all of man’s faculties.”
― KinderGarden Of Eden
― KinderGarden Of Eden
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