Jonah Goldberg Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Horse, Fun, Islamic

• Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

  Jonah Goldberg

  New York, War, America

• [American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Political, Today, Human Life

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.14, Crown Forum

• Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Friday, Worry, Today

• Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Daughter, Movement, Today

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.2, Crown Forum

• Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Yesteryear, Would Be, Tactics

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