Jonah Goldberg on History
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Jonah Goldberg, catalogued under history, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Jonah Goldberg, entry #117276: "Keeping Germany from acting too German is an important lesson of history."
Attributed to Jonah Goldberg, entry #130491: "he immediate assumption that praise for, or pride in, Western civilization is a species of bigotry and racism is a perfect example of the sort of civilizational suicide I describe…"
3 Quotes by Jonah Goldberg on History
"Keeping Germany from acting too German is an important lesson of history."
"he immediate assumption that praise for, or pride in, Western civilization is a species of bigotry and racism is a perfect example of the sort of civilizational suicide I describe in my own book on the subject."
"But the weird thing is that many of the people who are outraged by benign nationalism or the benign pan-nationalism that is pride in Western civilization take no umbrage when someone from Iran or China says they think their civilization is best. This of course is a manifestation of the ancient cult of identitarianism, which the best traditions of the West have battled internally at great cost for thousands of years. Saying Western civilization is great hurts the feelings of some people invested in some other source of identity. And it hurts the feelings of some Westerners because they think it’s a sign of enlightenment to get offended on other people’s behalf or to denigrate the society that gave them their soap box."