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Ilana Mercer is a South-african born American author, columnist, blogger and thinker. She has appeared on numerous radio, podcasts and television shows.

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Ilana Mercer Quotes

“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

“Canada is a high-wage area. The U. S. is a high-wage area. Latin America is a low-wage area. Migratory pressure flows from low-wage to high-wage regions; from the Third World to the First World (until migratory equilibrium is reached when First World becomes Third World).”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump’s Good for the English Language," http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/trumps-good-for-the-english-language/ WorldNetDaily.com, September 17, 2015.
2010s, 2015

World

“From the fact that many libertarians believe that the state has no legitimacy, they arrive at the position that anything the state does is illegitimate. This is a logical confusion. Consider the murderer who happens on a scene of a rape while fleeing the law, saves the woman, and pounds the rapist. Is this good deed illegitimate because performed by a murderer?”

Ilana Mercer

“Libertarian Wrangling,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=320 WorldNetDaily.com, July 31, 2002.
2000s

Law

“We do know. We can say for sure. And we have all the documents. George W. Bush lied America into war.”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump called Bush a liar & he won South Carolina (Nevada, too)," http://www.unz.com/imercer/trump-called-bush-a-liar-he-won-south-carolina-nevada-too/ The Unz Review, February 27, 2016.
2010s, 2016

War

“Look forward to epic images of heavy equipment barreling toward the Southern border. The sight of a gold-plated structure going up, as sections of the borderland along Mexico start to resemble Liberace's backyard: This is sure to warm the cockles of your heart, and make America's monomaniacal media go berserk.”

Ilana Mercer

"Let Milo Design The Wall" http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/let-milo-design-wall/ The Liberty Conservative, March 3, 2017
2010s, 2017

Heart

“"Disaffected, disadvantaged, disenfranchised is how progressives prefer to depict the Muslim murderers in their midst. After all, progressives hail from the school of therapeutic “thought” that considers crime to have been caused, not committed. Misbehavior is either medicalized and outsourced to state-approved experts, or reduced to the fault of the amorphous thing called society."”

Ilana Mercer

“The Camel-ate-my-homework Theory of Culpability” http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2015/01/30/the-camel-ate-my-homework-theory-of-culpability/, Libertarian Alliance, January 30, 2015.
2010s, 2015

School

““The Left's delayed Russophobia is about a century too late.”—ILANA MERCER,”

Ilana Mercer

“The Proof is Not In The Putin,” http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/16/the-cias-manchurian-candidate-narrative/ The Daily Caller, December 16, 2016
2010s, 2016

“Our soldiers have been propagandized to conflate fighting for American freedom with fights in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.”

Ilana Mercer

"Finally, A War John McCain Doesn't Love, https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/10/27/niger-finally-a-war-john-mccain-doesnt-love-n2401287" Townhall.com, October 27, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Freedom , Fight

“Why have some people produced Confucian and Anglo-Protestant ethics—with their mutual emphasis on graft and delayed gratification—while others have midwived Islamic and animistic values, emphasizing conformity, consensus, and control? Why have certain patterns of thought and action come to typify certain people in the first place? Such an investigation political correctness prohibits.”

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)

People

“Leave ISIS to Syria, Tehran and Tel Aviv. Let the locals take out their trash.”

Ilana Mercer

“Den Müll selber entsorgen,” http://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2014/den-muell-selber-entsorgen, Junge Freiheit (in German), September 18, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality.”

Ilana Mercer

"MacKinnon's Textual Harassment" http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmConservative-2006jan16-00033 The American Conservative, January 16, 2006.
2000s, 2006

Idea , Reality

“Henpecked though he was by the Murdoch Media's golden goose — Megyn Kelly — Trump demonstrated that he is what his constituency craves: A man in the old mold.”

Ilana Mercer

"Trump Could Send the System's Sycophants Scattering," http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/trump-could-send-the-systems-sycophants-scattering/ WorldNetDaily.com, August 14, 2015.
2010s, 2015

“Audacity we won't miss: Obama praised his spoilt daughters for graciously wearing 'the burden of years' of life in the lap of luxury (courtesy the taxpayer), a sentiment his wife, Michelle Antoinette Obama, seconded.”

Ilana Mercer

"'Go On Now Go,’ Barack Obama, ‘Walk Out The Door …’" https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/01/19/go-on-now-go-barack-obama-walk-out-the-door-n2273745 Townhall.com, January 19, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Life , Daughters

“The anatomy and workings of the Deep State are reflexive, rather than a matter of collusion and conspiracy. Simple psychology—human nature at its worst—sees government jobs and programs, war and welfare alike, protected in perpetuity and at all costs by the administrators of government jobs and programs.”

Ilana Mercer

"Elon Musk, Et al.: The Corporate Arm Of The Deep State," https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/06/03/elon-musk-et-al-the-corporate-arm-of-the-deepstate-n2335618 Townhall.com, June 3, 2017
2010s, 2017

War , Nature

“In the postmodern tradition, the pseudo-academics behind the concept of white privilege have invented for themselves an artificial, political construct. Political constructs confer power on those who dream them up. For politics is the predatory process through which the figment of sick minds is weaponized.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Demonization Of Whites By Mrs. Bill Gates & Other Dangerous Idiots," https://constitution.com/the-demonization-of-whites-by-mrs-bill-gates-other-dangerous-idiots/ Constitution.com, June 8, 2018
2010s, 2018

Dreams

“Centuries of Islam, transmitted through mother's milk, cannot be tweaked out of the Muslim DNA like some unsightly nose-hair.”

Ilana Mercer

“The Expert Idiocracy Is More dangerous Than Islam, Almost," http://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2016/07/17/the-expert-idiocracy-is-more-dangerous-than-islam-almost-n2193733 Townhall.com, July 17, 2016.
2010s, 2016

“America's foreign police is Disneyfied production, starring, invariably, an evil dictator who was killing his noble people, until, high on paternalism, America rode to the rescue.”

Ilana Mercer

" Truman Would Have Agreed With Trump On The CIA In Syria https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/07/23/truman-would-have-agreed-with-trump-on-the-cia-in-syria-n2358572," Townhall.com, July 23, 2017.
2010s, 2017

People , Star , Evil

“Like gun laws, spy laws, courtesy of the Surveillance State, oppress only law-abiding, harmless individuals.”

Ilana Mercer

"In the West, the Inmates Run the Asylym," http://praag.org/?p=21073 Praag.org, December 4, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Law

“In an effort to create reality on the ground - instead of reporting on it - the American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism.”

Ilana Mercer

“Media’s Sickening Sentimentality on Egypt,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=587 WorldNetDaily.com, February 19, 2011.
2010s, 2011

Color , Reality , Effort

“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture… American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.”

Ilana Mercer

"Duck Dynasty: A Decoy For Dummies" http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/ilana-mercer/item/duck-dynasty-a-decoy-for-dummies, American Daily Herald, December 27, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Religion , Feeling , Intelligence , Light

“The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.”

Ilana Mercer

“Life, Liberty, and Property,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=497 WorldNetDaily.com and Taki’s Magazine, May 15, 2009.
2000s, 2009

Life

“ISIS and an abstract ideology called 'radical Islamic terrorism'—a redundancy, if ever there was one, since Islam unreformed is radical—are not attacking us. Men and women upon whom we've conferred the right to live among us are.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Manchester Massacre And The Immigration Vexation," http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/manchester_massacre_and_the_immigration_vexation.html American Thinker, May 25, 2017
2010s, 2017

Women , Men

“The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.”

Ilana Mercer

"The Silent Co-Conspirators In Military Mass Shootings" http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/the-silent-co-conspirators-in-military.html Economic Policy Journal, September 22, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Sport

“Those gathered at the Annual Correspondents' Dinner, or their Christmas party, are not the country's natural aristocracy, but its authentic Idiocracy. No matter how poor their predictive powers, no matter how many times they get it wrong—in war and in peace—the presstitutes always find time for this orgy of self-praise.”

Ilana Mercer

"Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/thanks_potus_for_breakingup_the_annual_correspondents_circle_jerk.html The American Thinker, May 8, 2017.
2010s, 2017

War , Peace , Nature , Time

“A bully's universe: US foreign policy operates upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world.”

Ilana Mercer

“Putin Saves Us From Ourselves,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=644 WorldNetDaily.com, March 23, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Men , World , Universe

“I‘m strictly reality oriented. I don’t indulge in make-believe. I don’t wish to be where I’m not.”

Ilana Mercer

2010s, 2016

Reality

“In a free society, the ‘vision thing’ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary’ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government… the poorer and less free the people.”

Ilana Mercer

“His Rhetoric, Our Reality,” http://www.antiwar.com/mercer/?articleid=4585 Antiwar.com, January 26, 2005.
2000s, 2005

People , Understanding

“Yankees are fond of citing Confederacy officials in support of slavery and a war for slavery. Most Southerners, however, were not slaveholders. All Southerners were sovereigntists, fighting a 'War for Southern Independence.' They rejected central coercion. Southerners believed a union that was entered voluntarily could be exited in the same way.”

Ilana Mercer

"Yankee Supremacists Trash South’s Heroes," http://praag.org/?p=19556 Praag.org June 26, 2015.
2010s, 2015

War , Way , Support , Fight

“The idea that the Founders were flawed, sinful men like you and me is current among a hefty majority of Americans, conservative too. It is wrong. Quite the reverse. The Founders are matchless today both morally and intellectually — their actions bespeak a willingness to forsake fortunes and risk lives for liberty, a concept and cause alien to contemporary Americans, who're, mostly, bereft of both the mental and moral gravitas necessary to grasp it.”

Ilana Mercer

“The Founding Fathers Deconstructed,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=577 WorldNetDaily.com, December 3, 2010.
2010s, 2010

Men , Idea

“At its core, the argument against racism, at least as it works to further black interests, is an argument against collectivism. You're meant to avoid judging an entire people based on the color of their epidermis or the conduct of a statistically significant number of them. It is, however, deemed perfectly acceptable to malign and milk Europeans for all they're worth, based on the lack of pigment in their skin and their overall better socio-economic performance.”

Ilana Mercer

"Europeans Abolished Slavery; Africans/Muslims Still Practice It." http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263735/europeans-abolished-slavery-africansmuslims-still-ilana-mercer  FrontPage Magazine 8/4/016.
2010s, 2016

People , Color

“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'… Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?”

Ilana Mercer

"John Maynard Keynes: Where’s The Genius?! (Part 2) http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/john-maynard-keynes-wheres-genius-part-2.html Economic Policy Journal, August 23, 2013.
2010s, 2013

Money , Nature , Animals

“The United States has already passed on as the world’s economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

Ilana Mercer

“Economic Apocalypse Now,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=603 WorldNetDaily.com, June 3, 2011.
2010s, 2011

World , Horse , Training

“Like it or not, the modern marvel that was South Africa—with its space program and skyscrapers—was not the handiwork of the black nationalist movement now dismantling it; but the creation of those persecuted, pale, patriarchal Protestants.”

Ilana Mercer

"Erasing The Afrikaner Nation," http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=58 WorldNetDaily.com, November 23, 2007.
2000s, 2007

“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”

Ilana Mercer

“On The War Path With Samantha Power,” http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/on-war-path-with-samantha-power.html Economic Policy Journal, June 7, 2013.
2010s, 2013

War , Time , Reading

“Why have the leaders of the most powerful country on the African continent (Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma) succored the leader of the most corrupt (Mugabe)? These South African strongmen were, in a manner, saluting the Alpha Male Mugabe by implementing a slow-motion version of his program. When he socked it to the whites, Mugabe cemented his status as hero to black activists and their sycophants across South Africa.”

Ilana Mercer

" Why All Three South-African Presidents Supported Robert Mugabe https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/11/30/why-all-three-southafrican-presidents-supported-robert-mugabe-n2416210," Townhall.com, November 30, 2017
2010s, 2017

Country

“Liberty is not an aggregate social project. Every individual has rights. And rights give rise to obligations between all men, including those who are in power. That men band in a collective called 'government' doesn't give them license to violate individual rights.”

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

Men

“The White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) should have been more appropriately called the Sycophants' Supper. Would that it was the last such supper.”

Ilana Mercer

"Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/thanks_potus_for_breakingup_the_annual_correspondents_circle_jerk.html The American Thinker, May 8, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Housing

“On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.”

Ilana Mercer

"Reincarnation of the Reds," http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=108 WorldNetDaily.com, December 29, 2006, The Colorado Springs Gazette, January 17, 2007, and The Orange County Register, "The Reds Have Become Greens," January 19, 2007.
2000s, 2007

Weather

“Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.”

Ilana Mercer

“Border Invasion Abroad, Border Betrayal at Home,” http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36630 WorldNetDaily.com, January 16, 2004;
“Bush/Necon Paradigm Made Explicit,” http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003691.html referenced, View from the Right, Lawrence Auster website, July 7, 2005.
2000s, 2005

“The night-watchman state of classical liberalism would keep murderers out of the country, not in.”

Ilana Mercer

“Jihadists: a modest libertarian proposal” https://jungefreiheit.de/kolumne/2015/dschihadisten-ein-bescheidener-libertaerer-vorschlag/ Junge Freiheit, January 29, 2015.
2010s, 2015

Night , Country

“Arisen online and beyond is a niche-market of nudniks (nags): Women talking, blogging, vlogging, writing and publishing about women in high-technology or their absence therefrom; women beating the tom-tom about discrimination and stereotyping, but saying absolutely nothing about the technology they presumably love and help create.”

Ilana Mercer

" James Damore Confronts The Hags of High-Tech (& Loses) https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/08/12/james-damore-confronts-the-nagging-harridans-of-hightech--loses-n2367635," Townhall.com, August 12, 2017.
2010s, 2017

Love , Women , Help

“If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national government—the 14th Amendment effectively defeated that purpose by placing the power to enforce the Bill of Rights in federal hands, where it was never intended to be.”

Ilana Mercer

“Conned About Marriage, Constitution and States’ Rights” http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/conned-about-marriage-constitution-and-states-rights, WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2014.
2010s, 2014

“There was no man more valorous and courageous than Robert E. Lee.”

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

Courage