Dinesh Quotes

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.

Always follow your path, or the road less travelled.

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator