Maxioms by P. J. O'rourke
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really read more
I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
