When you internalize an author whose vision or philosophy is both rich and out of fashion, you gain a certain immunity from the pressures of the contemporary. The modern world, with it’s fads, propaganda, and advertising, is forever trying to herd us into conformity. Great literature can help us to remain fad-proof.

— Joseph Sobran

Joseph Sobran Quotes

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

— Joseph Sobran

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn’t know it.

— Joseph Sobran

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they’re individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

— Joseph Sobran

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn’t always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

— Joseph Sobran

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

— Joseph Sobran

Anything called a “program” is unconstitutional.

— Joseph Sobran

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

— Joseph Sobran

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn’t follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

— Joseph Sobran

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

— Joseph Sobran

A Christian can believe that God ‘ordained’ the ‘powers that be’ – including political rulers and slaveholders – for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.

— Joseph Sobran

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

— Joseph Sobran

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

— Joseph Sobran

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

— Joseph Sobran

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

— Joseph Sobran

Thus does a ‘necessary evil’ become an idol. Maybe we’re stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

— Joseph Sobran

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy’s.

— Joseph Sobran

When liberals clamor for ‘diversity,’ they don’t necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

— Joseph Sobran

Nothing annoys a ‘progressive’ like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

— Joseph Sobran

When you internalize an author whose vision or philosophy is both rich and out of fashion, you gain a certain immunity from the pressures of the contemporary. The modern world, with it’s fads, propaganda, and advertising, is forever trying to herd us into conformity. Great literature can help us to remain fad-proof.

— Joseph Sobran
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