Quotes by Conrad Black - Page 2

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Government
Believe
Essence
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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
War
Heresy
Identical
Moral
Quests
Relativism
Secular
Spirituality
Taken
Wickedness
Inexorably
Leads
Midfield
Quest
Superstition
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No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
British
East
Former
Indian
Jordan
Middle East
Morocco
North Africa
Sub Saharan Africa
Africa
Almost All
Dispute
Empire
Europeans
Governed
Sub-Saharan
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The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Determined
Empires
Patriotic
Weight
Collapsed
Talented
Eventually
Hard-Working
Lands
Manner
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The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Envy
Mind
Soul
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While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Men
Exercise
Powerful
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Government
Charity
Hypocrite
People
Pious
Reasonable
Rich
Rubbish
Share
Starvation
Violence
Government Enough People
Avoid
Beyond
Government Rich People
Hypocrites
Widespread
Incomes
Mob
Seizure
Socialists
Though
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There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Concern
Distribution
Fraud
Scapegoat
Wealth
Earned
Sell
Per
Legitimate
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All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Accustomed
Deserve
Equal
Honor
Wealth
Weight
All My Life
Contender
Measurements
Richest
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Country
Fodder
Herring
Israel
Numbers
Red
Repression
Sufficient
Tomorrow
Arab
Content
Cannon
Countries
Distract
Fruitless
Masses
Palestinians
Powers
Surrounding
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Commitment
Numbers
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