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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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"The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule."
"If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place."
"Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes."
"In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off."
"Anti-discrimination law is inconsistent with freedom of association and the right of private property."
"The object of creating bogus categories of crime is to leverage power over adversaries; to scare them."
"[M]embers of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth."
"Ultimately, the State has overwhelming power when compared to the limited resources and power of an accused."
In Syria, we witnessed "a successful attempt by the Russians at replacing bully power with a balance of power."
"Ours was never a country conceived as a democracy. To arrive at a democracy, we Americans destroyed a republic."
"The media lie so much, that when stuff happens that scares them, they no longer know where to turn for the truth."
"Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who’ve heeded, not hijacked, Islam."
"Mythical thinking thrives in a culture that eschews objective truth: ours."
"The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence."
"To the American media, mining Mandela's legacy has meant repeating the man's fortune-cookie profundities and warmed-over wisdom."
“A Democratic takeover promises to be a bitch for ordinary men.”
"There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power."
"Men in authority are now a threatened minority."
"Adding an overarching tier of tyrants—the EU—to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man."
"The night-watchman state of classical liberalism would keep murderers out of the country, not in."
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