Ilana Mercer Quotes (288 quotes, page 2)

“Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.”

Ilana Mercer

"In Defense of Vick, Man is the Only Top Dog," http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/rights-animals-peta-1836739-human-moral Orange County Register, September 2, 2007.
2000s, 2007

People , Exercises , Animals

“Nations whose institutions promote cultural relativism and hate of the dominant culture have no business importing the sort of immigrant who'll be quick to act on an ideology of hate—be it the self-hate of the host, or the hate in Jihad.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Manchester Massacre was Murder By Muslim Immigrant," http://www.unz.com/imercer/manchester-massacre-was-murder-by-muslim-immigrant/ The Unz Review, May 25, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Hate , Business

“Look at Jared Kushner. The poor man looks low T—like he might one day go the way of Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner. (I love LGBTQ, so long as they come in peace.) Jared's not wearing the pants in the Kushner castle. The beguilingly beautiful Ivanka is.”

Ilana Mercer

"What Ivanka wants, Ivanka gets." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/what_ivanka_wants_ivanka_gets.html American Thinker, April 13, 2017
2010s, 2017

Love , Peace , Beauty , Way

“In a democracy, thumping majorities prevail.”

Ilana Mercer

“Planet Facebook Owns It,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=652 WorldNetDaily.com, May 25, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Democracy

“Violent Jihad is not an ideology, as our Moderate Muslim friends keep calling it. Jihad is a pillar of a faith. That faith is Islam.”

Ilana Mercer

A Muslim Ban Won't Kill Americans -- Accepting Them Might http://www.unz.com/imercer/a-muslim-ban-is-logical-moral-even-libertarian/," The Unz Review, November 2, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Faith

“Keynes was to economics as Katrina was to New Orleans.”

Ilana Mercer

“Seeking honorable Hondurans for Hire,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=506 WorldNetDaily.com, July 10, 2009.
2000s, 2009

“In the classical conservative and libertarian traditions values are private things. They must be left to individuals and to civil society to practice and police. Party and state operatives have police powers with which to back their 'values.' Therefore, never-ever are they to preach or police The People's values.”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump nation tired of racial sadomasochism," http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-nation-tired-of-racial-sadomasochism/ WorldNetDaily.com, March 3, 2016.
2010s, 2016

People

“Thomas Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.”

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.html," American Thinker, July 4, 2017
2010s, 2017
Variant: Thomas Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.

Courage

“Certain bedrock principles — arguably a true conservative mindset — dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing[…] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.”

Ilana Mercer

"Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer" http://praag.org/?p=11950, Praag.org, November 25, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Life

“Where once there was an understanding that a reality independent of the human observer exists; students are now taught that truth is a social construction, a function of the power and position—or lack thereof—of persons or groups in society.”

Ilana Mercer

"Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good" http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/16/faking-history-to-make-the-black-kids-feel-good/ The Daily Caller, January 13, 2017
2010s, 2017

Truth , Understanding , Reality , Personality

“Actors are a troupe that makes a living pretending to be something they're not. Professional poseurs, if you like. Granted, they're not parasites, like the politicians with whom they cavort. But Tinseltown is a left-liberal ideological collective. They march in thematic unison. That their cultural products have become artistically worthless could well be because activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories and good scripts. Hollywood is a pretty, pea-brained community.”

Ilana Mercer

"Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/thanks-potus-for-breaking-up-the-annual-correspondents-circle-jerk/ The Daily Caller, May 8, 2017
2010s, 2017

Communication

“South Africa’s Constitution is descriptive, not prescriptive—full of pitch-perfect verbal obesities that provide little by way of recourse for those whose natural, individual rights are violated. As a protector of individual rights to life, liberty and property, it’s worse than useless—a wordy and worthless document.”

Ilana Mercer

“ South Africa Land Theft: Constitution All But Allows It, https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/03/11/south-africa-land-theft-constitution-all-but-allows-it-n2459680” Townhall.com, March 11, 2018.
2010s, 2018

Life , Way , Nature , Perfection

“As a Special-Forces commander, Sharon was on the front—and in front of his men — performing daring assaults that saved Israel in both the 1967 and 1973 wars. Hated though he was abroad, Sharon was, nevertheless, a soldier in the style of 'Stonewall' Jackson, not Dubya the Deserter, to whom he and the Likudniks were often compared.”

Ilana Mercer

"A Soldier in the Style of 'Stonewall' Jackson" http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/a-soldier-in-the-style-of-stonewall-jackson/, WorldNetDaily.com, January 16, 2014.
2010s, 2014

Men , Hate , War

“Healthy patriotism is associated with robust particularism – petty provincialism, if you like – and certainly not with the deracinated globalism exhibited by our GI Joes and Janes.”

Ilana Mercer

“The International Highway to Hell,” http://www.antiwar.com/mercer/?articleid=5117 Antiwar.com, March 9, 2005.
2000s, 2005

“Metaphorically speaking, free African-American politicians and activists are boiling the bones of their enslaved ancestors to make soup. The suffering of slaves is being exploited posthumously to shape discourse in politically advantageous ways.”

Ilana Mercer

"What Cultural Marxist Would Say About Looting, http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/what-cultural-marxists-would-say-about-looting/" WND.COM, September 14, 2017
2010s, 2017

Way , Suffering

“Self-government, and not imposed government, implies that society, and not The State, is to develop value systems. The State's role is to protect citizens as they go about their business peacefully, living in accordance with their peaceful values.”

Ilana Mercer

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

Peace , Business

“In the US, Great Britain and Western Europe, state and civil society acculturate immigrants into a militant identity politics. Essentially, newcomers are taught to hate their hosts.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Manchester Massacre was Murder By Muslim Immigrant," http://www.unz.com/imercer/manchester-massacre-was-murder-by-muslim-immigrant/ The Unz Review, May 25, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Hate

“If America busies itself not with elective wars, but with commerce, the shift in power and prestige will be away from politicians who prosecute wars, and back to The People who produce prosperity.”

Ilana Mercer

“Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America… Again,” https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/ilana-mercer/finally-a-just-war/LewRockwell.com, September 25, 2015.
2010s, 2015

War , People , Business

“From the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their healthcare, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right. A man's life, liberty and the products of his labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities.”

Ilana Mercer

“The Defunct Foundations of the Republic,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=528 WorldNetDaily.com, January 1, 2010.
2010s, 2010

Life

“By all means, argue against laws that prohibit victimless 'crimes' on the ground that these disproportionally ensnare blacks. But do not err in accusing all cops of targeting blacks, when the former are entrusted with enforcing the law, and the latter violate the law in disproportion to their numbers in the general population.”

Ilana Mercer

“Ferguson: Angst vor einer militarisierten Polizei” http://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2014/ferguson-angst-vor-einer-militarisierten-polizei Junge Freiheit (in German), September 4, 2014.
2010s, 2014

Law

“Satire in the US has been killed off by the twin tyrannies of political correctness and affirmative action.”

Ilana Mercer

"Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/thanks-potus-for-breaking-up-the-annual-correspondents-circle-jerk/ The Daily Caller, May 8, 2017
2010s, 2017

“By going on the defensive… libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from “polite” company.”

Ilana Mercer

"Fee-fi-fo-fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist", http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/fee-fi-fo-fem-i-smell-the-blood-of-a-racist/ WorldNetDaily.com, May 15, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“Statistics are silly unless given context. If you have one foot in fire, the other in ice, can we legitimately say that, on average, you're warm? Hardly. Probabilities, in this case the chance that any one of us will die-by-Muslim, are statistically insignificant—unless this happens to you or to yours, to me or mine.”

Ilana Mercer

2010s, 2017

Chance

“Republican presidents who've talked and acted conservatively are as elusive as Big Foot. There hasn't been a sighting in maybe a century. A purist would cite Democrat Grover Cleveland as America's last conservative president. He preached and practiced the maxim that 'the people must support the government, but the government must not support the people.”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump Doesn’t Need to Talk Like A Conservative," http://www.unz.com/imercer/trump-doesnt-need-to-talk-like-a-conservative/ The Unz Review, March 19, 2016.
2010s, 2016

People , Support

“By upholding the moral order, President Trump is also restoring the natural order inverted by his predecessors. The feminist order of Obama had humiliated thousands of American men-of-action by turning them into wet-nurses.”

Ilana Mercer

"Ice Agents Prefer Deporting Illegals To Changing Their Diapers" http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/02/ice-agents-like-deporting-illegals-better-than-changing-their-diapers/ The Daily Caller, March 3, 2017
2010s, 2017
Variant: On ICE agents minding illegal alien minors: "By upholding the moral order, President Trump is also restoring the natural order, inverted by his predecessors. The feminist order of Obama had humiliated thousands of American men-of-action by turning them into wet-nurses."

Men , Nature

“Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama—his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence—these came from Kansas, not Kenya.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Big Lie About Obama and Race," http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=482 WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2009.
2000s, 2009

Education , Confidence , Boy , Communication

“As the left sees it, if America isn't going to police the world; it must at least provide shelter to all people from unpoliced parts of the world.”

Ilana Mercer

"A Global 'Right of Return' To The US? Who Knew?" https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/06/15/a-global-right-of-return-to-the-us-who-knew-n2490978 Townhall.com, June 15, 2018.
2010s, 2018

People , World , Parting

“Neoconservatives are still in the business of creating their own parallel reality and forcing ordinary Americans, Europeans and Middle-Easterners to inhabit the ruins.”

Ilana Mercer

“Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America… Again,” https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/ilana-mercer/finally-a-just-war/ LewRockwell.com, September 25, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Business , Reality

“There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.”

Ilana Mercer

"Debt-ceiling Denier and Proud" http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/ilana-mercer/item/debt-ceiling-hike-denier-and-proud American Daily Herald, October 14, 2013.
2010s, 2013

“Ask yourself: "Do I police what people say for political propriety? … do I scrutinize great literature, music, art, television or comedy for signs of so-called sexism, racism, elitism, homophobia, antisemitism and meanness? Am I incapable of appreciating a superbly written script or book; a sublime painting or symphony; a smart stand-up routine, if only because the material and its creator violate the received laws of political correctness?”

Ilana Mercer

“Joan Rivers – antidote to PC totalitarianism,” http://www.quarterly-review.org/?p=2781 The Quarterly Review, July 11, 2014.
2010s, 2014

People , Books , Law , Art

“From financial aid (for foreign students) to an affirmative-action placement in Harvard Law School, Barry Soetoro is a Frankenstein of America’s creation.”

Ilana Mercer

“Dying for Obama’s Deadly Dogma,” http://www.targetliberty.com/2014/10/dying-for-obamas-deadly-dogma.html Target Liberty, October 17, 2014
2010s, 2014

School , Law

“Wars are generally a rich man's affair and a poor man's fight.”

Ilana Mercer

" Sanctuary City Mayor Trashes An AMERICAN Hero, Robert E. Lee, https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/sanctuary-city-mayor-trashes-an-american-hero-robert-e-lee/" The Abbeville Institute, May 25, 2017
2010s, 2017

War , Fight

“The Democratic Party has come to be controlled by hysterical women and their domesticated man servants. In conduct, these Democratic women are more feral than female.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Dominatrix Party," https://amgreatness.com/2018/10/21/the-dominatrix-party/ American Greatness, October 21, 2018
2010s, 2018

Women

“Like no other, drug legalization is a proxy black issue, worthy of the endorsement of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement.”

Ilana Mercer

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

“On "shithole countries": "What makes a country, the place or the people? Does the country create the man or does the man make the country? The answer is no chicken-or-egg quandary. Human action is the ultimate adjudicator of a human being's worth. The aggregate action of many human beings acting in concert is what makes or breaks a society. In other words, it is the individual who creates the collective, not the other way around. The Man makes the country what it is."”

Ilana Mercer

" Why Trump Pooh-Poohed 'Shithole Countries,' https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/02/01/why-trump-poohpoohed-sithole-countries-part-2-n2442943" Townhall.com, February 1, 2018.
2010s, 2018

People , Way , Country

“What comes out of the Trump White House is an ideological cacophony. Hiring different perspectives in business could well be a strength. But it's a weakness when politics and policy are in play. Needed to advance a political agenda is a team that shares the political philosophy underlying the agenda.”

Ilana Mercer

" Trump's Phone Call To Putin https://mises.org/power-market/ilana-mercer-trumps-phone-call-putin," Mises Institute, Power & Market Blog, March 22, 2018.
2010s, 2018

Business , Housing

“Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel … for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Ridiculous Racial Merry-go-round," http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/05/the-ridiculous-racial-merry-go-round.html Economic Policy Journal, May 2, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“… we’re not all the same. A common liberal refrain … is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don’t see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That’s liberal logic for you.”

Ilana Mercer

“The Kindness of (Caucasian) Strangers” http://barelyablog.com/the-kindness-of-caucasian-stangers, Barely A Blog, January 31, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“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