Ilana Mercer: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.”

Ilana Mercer

“Just In From Mainstream: Barack Is As Thick As A Brick”, http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=667 WorldNetDaily.com, August 24, 2012.
2010s, 2012

“At the annual White House Sycophants' Dinner, the most pretentious people in the country, in politics, journalism and entertainment - not the country's natural aristocracy, but its authentic Idiocracy - convene and revel in their ability to petition and curry favor with one another, usually to the detriment of the rest of us.”

Ilana Mercer

“Media Morass,” http://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2015/medienmorast/ Junge Freiheit, February 26, 2015.
2010s, 2015

People , Nature , Housing , Country

“The media lie so much, that when stuff happens that scares them, they no longer know where to turn for the truth.”

Ilana Mercer

“The Camel-ate-my-homework Theory of Culpability,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=803 WorldNetDaily.com, January 30, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Truth , Lie

“From the fact that a man or a community of men lacks the intellectual wherewithal or cultural and philosophical framework to conceive of property rights—it doesn't follow that he has no such rights, or that he has forfeited them. Not if one adheres to the ancient doctrine of natural rights.”

Ilana Mercer

" Everyone Has Property Rights Whether He Knows It Or Not https://mises.org/blog/everyone-has-property-rights-whether-they-know-it-or-not," Mises Wire, October 11, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Men , Communication , Nature

“A natural-rights libertarian values the life of the innocent individual. Only by protecting each individual's rights—life, liberty and property—can the government legitimately enhance the wealth of the collective. Only through fulfilling its night watchman role can government legitimately safeguard the wealth of the nation. For each individual, secure in his person and property, is then free to pursue economic prosperity, which redounds to the rest.”

Ilana Mercer

Barcelona and Beyond: How Politicians & Policy Wonks Play God With Your Life http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/21/barcelona-and-beyond-how-politicians-wonks-play-god/, Daily Caller, August 21, 2017.
Barcelona and Beyond: How Politicians & Policy Wonks Play God With Your Life http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/barcelona_and_beyond_how_politicians_and_policy_wonks_play_god_with_your_life_.html, American Thinker, August 20, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Life , Nature , Personality , Night

“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.”

Ilana Mercer

“Life in the Oink Sector,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=516 WorldNetDaily.com, September 25, 2009.
2000s, 2009

Money

“Propensities for crime are irrelevant in a discussion about the murder of an individual — Ms. Kathryn Steinle and all other victims of criminals who should not be in the U. S. For these deaths have nothing to do with aggregate crime rates; they're about individuals who should be alive: a baby that should have been born, a girl who should be among the living, young men and women who should not be dead. To justify the crime-probabilities line-of-inquiry in the context of killer Francisco Sanchez' presence that day on the San Francisco pier, you would need to show that had Sanchez been deported or jailed or turned back at the border—his victim, Ms. Steinle, would nevertheless have suffered the same fate at the hands of a native murderer. The same eventuality would need to be demonstrated with respect to each individual victim of a criminal alien. The implication is crushingly stupid.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Hispandering Effect," http://www.quarterly-review.org/the-hispandering-effect/ The Quarterly Review, July 12, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Death , Women , Men , Fate

“Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.”

Ilana Mercer

“Make me Thankful: Don’t Enlist!” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=523 WorldNetDaily.com, November 27, 2009.
2000s, 2009

“In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.”

Ilana Mercer

"Why Government ‘Care’ Will Never, Ever Work" http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/why-government-care-will-never-ever-work.html Economic Policy Journal, October 26, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Failure , Time , Success , Training

“An American writer's intellectual energy ought to focus on American interests, first. Personal probity demands it! Otherwise, the columnist is a fifth column.”

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

Personality

“The category of 'criminal' (according to incontrovertibly correct libertarian political theory) entails the outlaw criminal class—it needs no introduction—and the legalized criminal class: the politicians.”

Ilana Mercer

"Jihad's Triumph On Westminster Bridge" https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/03/30/jihads-triumph-on-westminster-bridge-n2306480 Townhall.com, March 30, 2017
2010s, 2017

“A brave nation fights because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.”

Ilana Mercer

“Betraying Brave Boys,” http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31722 WorldNetDaily.com, March 26, 2003.
2000s

Fight

“Our bickering wards in the Middle-East aren't about to forget their religious jealousies and join forces, certainly not under American guardianship. The conflicts are regional, tribal, ancient. They're impervious to outside, top-down intervention.”

Ilana Mercer

" Truman Would Have Agreed With Trump On The CIA In Syria http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/truman_would_have_agreed_with_trump_on_the_cia_in_syria.html," American Thinker, July 22, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Jealousy , Forgetting

“B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.”

Ilana Mercer

"Hollywood: The No-Good, The Bad And The Beastly" http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/ilana-mercer/item/hollywood-the-no-good-the-bad-and-the-beastly American Daily Herald, March 10, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“Men in authority are now a threatened minority.”

Ilana Mercer

“Bullied 'Jail Bus' Lady: Fearful Fatty, Not A Hero,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=657 WorldNetDaily.com, June 29, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Men

“Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable.”

Ilana Mercer

“Standing Armies Commandeered by Cowards,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=686 WorldNetDaily.com, November 23, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Way

“Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.”

Ilana Mercer

"Unlearned Rabbi Rages at Ratzinger, http://www.ilanamercer.com/Unlearned%20Rabbi%20Rages%20at%20Ratzinger.htm FrontPageMagazine.com, April 29, 2005.
2000s, 2005

God

“No war makes Johnny McCain a sad boy.”

Ilana Mercer

" Finally, A War John McCain Doesn't Love https://mises.org/blog/niger-finally-war-john-mccain-doesnt-love," Mises Wire, October 26, 2017.
2010s, 2017

War , Sadness , Boy

“Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.”

Ilana Mercer

"Coddling Killers," http://spectator.org/archives/2004/12/29/coddling-killers The American Spectator, December 29, 2004.
2000s

Idea , Training

“A professional politician is opportunistic and parasitic. For his survival, he must feed off his hosts. To convince the host to let him hook on and drain his lifeblood, the political hookworm must persuade enough of them to believe his deception. The energies of this political confidence trickster are thus focused on gaining voter confidence by promising what will never be delivered and what is impossible to deliver.”

Ilana Mercer

“Trump Should Triangulate,” http://www.unz.com/imercer/trump-should-triangulate/ The Unz Review, August 7 2015.
2010s, 2015

Confidence