Joseph SobranPeople who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on… ▶373HumanityPoliticsThought
Joseph SobranWar is just one more big government program.375Politics
Joseph SobranThe purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.331Politics
Joseph SobranThe chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.343Politics
Joseph SobranSince outright slavery has been discredited, democracy is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.321HumanityPolitics
Joseph SobranA belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since … ▶332Humanity
Joseph SobranWartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.354PoliticsTime
Joseph SobranFreedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.322Politics
Joseph SobranWe have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some peo… ▶356HumanityLifePolitics
Joseph SobranThe difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.323Politics
Joseph SobranNeed' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.346LovePolitics
Joseph SobranThere has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyra… ▶346HumanityPolitics
Joseph SobranI call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.313PoliticsTime
Joseph SobranLoyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.369Sadness
Joseph SobranThe Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.271Politics
Joseph SobranLike psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuit… ▶282Philosophy
Joseph SobranAltering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and ex… ▶282Politics
Joseph SobranEven if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.307Politics
Joseph SobranThe measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.263HumanityPolitics
Joseph SobranDestroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.297Humanity
Joseph SobranThe prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the … ▶243Politics
Joseph SobranThe most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those t… ▶3110LifePolitics
Joseph SobranPower tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.287PoliticsTruth
Joseph SobranIt's a curious fact about Americans that in their most fiercely patriotic moods they are willing to set aside their Constitution, the guarantor of their freedom, in order to prose… ▶276Truth
Joseph SobranThere can be no such thing as limited government, because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.299Politics
Joseph SobranA Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while t… ▶288Politics
Joseph SobranWar has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended r… ▶223HopePolitics
Joseph SobranAnything called a program is unconstitutional.2810Time
Joseph SobranThe best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.202Hope
Joseph SobranIn a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in… ▶269HumanityPolitics
