Ilana Mercer: Trending quotes

“Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.”

Ilana Mercer

"Libertarian Feminists Make A Move On Von Mises" http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/03/libertarian-feminists-make-move-on-von.html Economic Policy Journal, March 28, 2014.
2010s, 2014

Courage

“Most people would define treason as a betrayal of one's country or sovereign. In my book, the book of natural law, treason is properly defined as a betrayal of one's countrymen—and, in particular, the betrayal of the individual's right to life, liberty and property. (To your question, yes, this renders almost all politicians traitors by definition.)”

Ilana Mercer

“The Peerless Malevolence of Redcoat Piers Morgan,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=692 WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Life , People , Books , Law

“The voluntary free market is a sacred extension of life itself. The free market—it has not been unfettered for a very long time—is really a spontaneously synchronized order comprising trillions upon trillions of voluntary acts that individuals perform in order to make a living. Introduce government force and coercion into this rhythm and you get life-threatening arrhythmia. Under increasing state control, this marketplace - this magic, organic agora - starts to splutter, and people suffer.”

Ilana Mercer

“Beck Breaks from the Pack,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=546 WorldNetDaily.com, April 23, 2010.
2010s, 2010

Life , People , Suffering , Time

“Provided they are substantiated by hard evidence, not hunches, generalizations are not incorrect. Science relies on the ability to generalize to the larger population observations drawn from a representative sample. People make prudent decisions in their daily lives based on probabilities and generalities. That one chooses not to live in a particular crime-riddled county or country in no way implies that one considers all individual residents there to be criminals, only that a sensible determination has been made, based on statistically significant data, as to where scarce and precious resources—one's life and property—are best invested.”

Ilana Mercer

Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa
2010s, <u>Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa</u> (2011)

Life , People , Way , Decision

“The glue of American togetherness is gone, replaced by a flimsy, fluid, and thoroughly fake unity peddled by politicians. ‘Ideas’ they call it. On the one day, it's a crusade for democracy; on the next, it's a war against racism.”

Ilana Mercer

“Ilana Mercer on multiculturalism, political correctness, and more,” http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2013/jan/28/ilana-mercer-multiculturalism-political-correctnes The Washington Times (interview), January 28, 2013.
2010s, 2013

War , Democracy , Idea

“"In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," instead of "life, liberty and property." With that vagueness, Jefferson undermined the foundation of civilization: private property right."”

Ilana Mercer

2010s, 2016

Life , Happiness

“This White House fetishizes Iraqi national unity. It believes that to succeed, Iraqis should be like Americans, forever imprisoned in an arranged, unhappy political marriage.”

Ilana Mercer

“Das Kurdische Masada,” http://jungefreiheit.de/allgemein/2014/das-kurdische-masada Junge Freiheit (in German), August 21, 2014.
2010s, 2014

Marriage , Housing

“The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the Immoral values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.”

Ilana Mercer

“A Burning Dilemma Among America’s Dhimma,” http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/ilana-mercer/item/a-burning-dilemma-among-america-s-dhimma American Daily Herald, May 10, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Children , History , Parting

“Sexual exhibitionism—homosexual or heterosexual—is anathema. The heroic and creative inner struggle of an older generation of Gay Greats, exemplified by the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White, was in the Greek tradition: silent and stoic, principled yet private.”

Ilana Mercer

“'AYN RAND, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND HUMAN LIBERATION,'” http://www.wnd.com/2004/07/25485/ WorldNetDaily.com, July 9, 2004
2000s

“Ours was never a country conceived as a democracy. To arrive at a democracy, we Americans destroyed a republic.”

Ilana Mercer

" Whodunit? Who Meddled With Out Democracy? https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/02/10/whodunit-who-meddled-with-our-democracy-n2446787" February 10, 2018, Townhall.com
2010s, 2018

Democracy , Country

“Demographics need not be destiny. The West became the best not by out-breeding the undeveloped world… but because of human capital; people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”

Ilana Mercer

“The ‘We Need To Have A Conversation’ Malarkey,” http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2015/03/30/the-we-need-to-have-a-conversation-malarkey/ The Libertarian Alliance, March 30, 2015.
2010s, 2015
Variant: Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital — people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.

People , World , Idea , Science

“Contemporary Americans are less likely to read the Declaration of Independence now that it's easily available on the Internet, than when it relied on horseback riders for its distribution.”

Ilana Mercer

" The Declaration of Independence No Longer Expresses the American Mind," http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/the_declaration_no_longer_expresses_the_american_mind.htmlAmerican Thinker, July 4, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Reading

“The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence.”

Ilana Mercer

“Liar, liar, abaya on fire,” http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27264 WorldNetDaily.com, April 17, 2002.
2000s

World

“The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.”

Ilana Mercer

"As She Lay Dying," http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43500 WorldNetDaily.com, March 26, 2005.
2000s, 2005

Marriage , Faith , Effort

“Donald Trump's political rivals look at the price exacted by a Muslim like Syed Farouk and his bride in the aggregate. To a politician, 14 lives in 322 million is a small price to pay for 'our freedoms.' Fourteen dead in San Bernardino is not a steep price to pay for unfettered immigration from Islamic countries, peddled politically as 'our values,' 'our tolerance,' 'our greatness.' This callous calculus is second nature to neoconservative politicians like Lindsey Graham or Darth Vader Cheney. Not to Trump.”

Ilana Mercer

"No Wonder the Pols Think Businessman Trump’s Crazy; He Understands Scarcity," http://www.unz.com/imercer/no-wonder-the-pols-think-businessman-trumps-crazy-he-understands-scarcity/ The Unz Review, December 11, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Nature , Freedom , Dead , Country

“The liberal program aims to dissolve 'the constitution of man' in the service of sexual sameness. It is predicated on the imbecilic belief that biology is incidental, and that men and women are essentially interchangeable.”

Ilana Mercer

"Are Liberal Pervs Sexually Obsessed With Refugees?" https://constitution.com/are-liberal-pervs-sexually-obsessed-with-refugees/, Constitution.com, April 27, 2018.
2010s, 2018

Women , Men

“If a veteran political operative like Barack Obama is considered beyond reproach, incapable of abusing power—all the more so is it irrational, irresponsible and in Third-World style to hound an administration not yet fully assembled or ensconced, for a political past it lacks. Sane people must walk away from Fake News' Russia Ruse.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Donald Vs. The Deep State" http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/the-donald-vs-the-deep-state/ The Daily Caller, March 9, 2017
2010s, 2017

People , World , Past

“Because our form of government is incompatible with the enforcement of values, the American People can't and mustn't welcome into their midst civilizations whose values are inimical to the survival of their own.”

Ilana Mercer

"Beware The Values Cudgel," http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/03/beware-the-values-cudgel/ The Daily Caller, February 2, 2017
2010s, 2017

People

“The fact that there are moderate Muslims doesn't mean there is a moderate Islam.”

Ilana Mercer

" A Muslim Ban Is Logical, Moral, Even Libertarian http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/03/a-muslim-ban-is-logical-moral-and-even-libertarian/," The Daily Caller, November 3, 2017.
2010s, 2017

“The tools threatening President Trump with impeachment have one bag of tricks stuffed with power tools: they audit, indict, arrest, bomb, change regimes. They don't make profitable business deals; they tax them. They don't make peace; they wage war.”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump Fends Off 'Showboat' Comey And The Federal Zombies," http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/06/trump_fends_off_showboat_comey_and_the_federal_zombies.html The American Thinker, June 9, 2017.
2010s, 2017

War , Peace , Business , Change