Ilana Mercer: Trending quotes (page 12)

“When you're the most powerful entity in the world, as the US government certainly is—the only government to have dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations ('good' bombs, because dropped by the US)—you get to manufacture your own parallel universe with its unique rules of evidence and standards of proof. What's more, as the mightiest rule-maker, you can coerce other earthlings into 'sharing' your alternate reality. Or else.”

Ilana Mercer

" Beware The Atavistic Dynamics Undergirding Two American Wars, https://misesuk.org/2017/06/21/beware-the-atavistic-dynamics-undergirding-two-american-wars/" The Ludwig von Mises Centre For Property and Freedom, June 21, 2017.
2010s, 2017

World , Reality , Universe

“Tyranny strives for uniformity.”

Ilana Mercer

“America's youth: Dim-witted, self-indulgent, politically correct,” https://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2015/amerikas-jugend-dusselig-selbstverliebt-politisch-korrekt/ Junge Freiheit, March 26, 2015.
2010s, 2015

“While the Left controls the intellectual means of production—schools (primary, secondary, tertiary), media, foundations, think tanks, publishing prints—the 'Respectable Right' is hardly on the outs with the liberal smart set.”

Ilana Mercer

" Trump Doesn't Need To Talk Like A Con-Servative http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-doesnt-need-to-talk-like-a-conservative/," WND.com, March 17, 2016.
2010s, 2016

School , Thinking

“Fox News' Megyn Kelly has fast succumbed to the female instinct to show-off, bare skin, flirt and wink. She now also regularly motormouths it over the occasional smart guest she entertains (correction: the one smart guest, Ann Coulter). At the same time, Kelly has dignified the tinnitus named Dana Perino with a daily slot as Delphic-oracle.”

Ilana Mercer

"Motormouth Megyn Meets her Match," http://www.quarterly-review.org/motormouth-megyn-meets-her-match/The Quarterly Review, August 21, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Time

“I don't know that Trump favors protective tariffs, import quotas or export subsidies. I do know that we don't have free trade. What goes for 'free trade' is trade managed by powerful bureaucracies—national and transnational international—central planners concerned with regulating, not freeing, trade; whose goal it is to harmonize labor, health, and environmental laws throughout the developed world. The undeveloped and developing worlds do as they please. My understanding is that Trump simply wants to make these agreements and organs work for the American people.”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump and Trade," http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-and-trade/ WorldNetDaily.com, March 11, 2016.
2010s, 2016

People , Health , World , Law

“Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.”

Ilana Mercer

“Can the Incredible Hulk Strike at Socialism?” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=620 WorldNetDaily.com, September 30, 2011.
2010s, 2011

Nature

“In Syria, we witnessed "a successful attempt by the Russians at replacing bully power with a balance of power."”

Ilana Mercer

"Putin Saves Us From Ourselves," https://www.wnd.com/2012/03/putin-saves-us-from-ourselves/ WorldNetDaily.com, March 23, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Success

“Iraq hasn't suddenly 'slipped back into' this backward and benighted state. It was bombed there by a mulish military power which didn't know Shiite from Shinola. [translated from German]”

Ilana Mercer

"Irak: Von Tuten und Blasen keine Ahnung gehabt" http://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2014/irak-von-tuten-und-blasen-keine-ahnung-gehabt/, Junge Freiheit, June 27, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“Taking the knee' is like taking a pee. It's a waste. It speaks to the inward-looking, ego-driven, vain posturing of the Left and its perpetually seething, predatory racial coalition. They're bent on extracting something from innocent, ordinary Americans who owe them nothing.”

Ilana Mercer

" The Tribalism of Kneelism http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/29/the-tribalism-of-kneelism/," The Daily Caller, September 29, 2017.
2010s, 2017

“Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.”

Ilana Mercer

“Is it ‘Moran’ or ‘Moron’?” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=552 WorldNetDaily.com, May 28, 2010.]
2010s, 2010

“The paleolibertarian grasps that liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure.”

Ilana Mercer

" Cathy Reisenwitz Redux: Steigerwald, Oy Vey Gevalt! https://thelibertarianalliance.com/2015/01/14/ilana-mercer-cathy-reisenwitz-redux-steigerwald-oy-gevalt/" Libertarian Alliance, January 14, 2015
2010s, 2015

“Those of us who want the U. S. to stay solvent—and out of the affairs of others—recognize that sovereign nation-states that resist, not enable, our imperial impulses, are the best hindrance to hegemonic overreach.”

Ilana Mercer

“The Speaker vs. The Decider,” http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/foreign-56997-power-pelosi.html The Orange County Register, April 10, 2007.
2000s, 2007

“Where, pray tell, are those 'made in Russia' labels? Other than crude and commodities; Kalashnikovs (AK-47s) and Vodka – what does post-communist Russia peddle?”

Ilana Mercer

“What's Wrong With Asking What's Up With Russia?” http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2015/03/22/the-grotesquely-stalinist-fdr/ The Libertarian Alliance, March 20, 2015.
2010s, 2015

“The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.”

Ilana Mercer

"Shafting Boys," http://www.ilanamercer.com/Shafting%20Boys.htm WorldNetDaily.com, January 27, 2006.
2000s, 2006

Education

“Whether arrived at through reason or revelation… natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.”

Ilana Mercer

"Why the Land Belongs to Bundy," http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/04/why-land-belongs-to-bundy.html Economic Policy Journal, April 25, 2014.
2010s, 2014

Law , Nature

“Ask any left-liberal American Jew if he supports a 'Right of Return' to Israel proper for every self-styled Palestinian refugee, and he'll likely recoil: 'Are you meshuga? Never! That's a euphemism for Israel's demise.' The very thing he rejects for Israel, the liberal Jew is inclined to champion for America: a global right of return to the US for citizens of the world.”

Ilana Mercer

“American Rabbis For Israel First, http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/08/american-rabbis-for-israel-first.html Economic Policy Journal, August 8, 2014.
2010s, 2014

World , Support

“The individual living in America as it was meant to be would be free to run his business as he wishes, associate with those he likes, dissociate from those he dislikes or disapproves; hire, fire, rent to or evict from, invest and disinvest, speak and misspeak at will. This hypothetical free man is at liberty to bruise as many feelings as he likes, so long as his mitts stop at the next man's face. So long as he harms nobody's person or property, our mythic man may live as he wishes to live.”

Ilana Mercer

“Get off your knees, Gov. Pence!” http://www.targetliberty.com/2015/04/get-off-your-knees-gov-pence.html Target Liberty, April 5, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Feeling , Business , Personality

“Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.”

Ilana Mercer

“In Defense of Obama’s Apologizing,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=551 WorldNetDaily.com, May 21, 2010.
2010s, 2010

Law

“A balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in; that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers, and that the bums must merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending).”

Ilana Mercer

“Rand Paul: Action Hero, Or Political Performance Artist?” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=700 WorldNetDaily.com, March 1, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Wealth

“An easy way for the government to create criminality where there is none is to make it a crime to lie to its agents, in this case the FBI, which is Deep State Central.”

Ilana Mercer

" The Non-Crime of Lying To The FBI, https://mises.org/wire/non-crime-lying-fbi" Mises.org, December 11, 2017
2010s, 2017

Lie , Way