Jonah Goldberg on Power
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Jonah Goldberg, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Jonah Goldberg, entry #222308: "ocialism’s durability as a concept owes almost nothing to economics and almost everything to the desire for power..."
Attributed to Jonah Goldberg, entry #7181: "As America’s Founders well understood, a society enjoying a multiplicity of institutions, interests, and intact communities is much more difficult to subjugate by a single central…"
3 Quotes by Jonah Goldberg on Power
"ocialism’s durability as a concept owes almost nothing to economics and almost everything to the desire for power..."
"As America’s Founders well understood, a society enjoying a multiplicity of institutions, interests, and intact communities is much more difficult to subjugate by a single central power, be it a king, a dictator, or a bureaucracy."
"early every political evil can be found on display in China: slavery, discrimination, religious persecution, xenophobia, tyranny, mass-political indoctrination, colonialism, cultural genocide, and so on. And yet, the outcry against these things in America and the West is a tiny fraction of what it was with regard to South Africa in the 1980s or Israel today. Why? Some of the political answers are pretty obvious — and have much merit. A few that come to mind: China is non-Western, and many of these sins are supposed to be unique to white Europeans; China is a victim of colonialism, and so we shouldn’t judge it harshly; China is very powerful, and realpolitik dictates that we be diplomatic; and so on."