Victor Davis Hanson Citas

• Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

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  Ignorance, Arrogance, Combination

  "'Little Eichmanns' and 'Digital Brownshirts'" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.nationalreview.com. March 18, 2005.

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• Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

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  Media, Organization, World

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• It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .

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  Sides, Perfidy

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• Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

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  Reminders, Standards, Multiculturalism

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• La inmigración ilegal sólo es alabada por quienes se benefician directamente de ella, ya sea en el sentido familiar de niñeras, cocineros o jardineros baratos; o en el interés corporativo de mano de obra barata en las industrias de la hostelería, la agricultura y la construcción; o en el sentido político de nuevos electores liberales; o en el sentido tribal de ampliar la llamada base de La Raza. Pero la inmensa mayoría de los estadounidenses acepta que cuando se ignora la ley federal, sobreviene el caos.

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  Law, Agriculture, Political

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• Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

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  Natural Talent, Skills, Mastery

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• I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

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  Stupid, School, People

  "Why the Elitist Hatred Toward Palin?" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 10, 2009.

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• California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.

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  Country, Hard Work, California

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• History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

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  Government, Enemy, Shrinking

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• Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take any more perks than you would wish others to take; don't borrow what you couldn't suddenly pay back; imagine the worse case financial scenario and expect it very may well happen; the wealthier you become the more humble you should act.

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  Humble, Wish, May

  "Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts". pjmedia.com. November 21, 2008.

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• The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

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  Memories, Government, Israel

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• Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.

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  Ríndase

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• Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

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  Eggs, Broken, Mao

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• Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

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  Enemy, Bills, Warren Buffet

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• Un país que no puede contar a sus propios extranjeros ilegales -las estimaciones oscilan entre 8 y 12 millones- con una frontera porosa de 3.000 kilómetros no es seguro a pesar de contar con doce grupos de combate de portaaviones. Debemos aceptar que es una piedra angular de la política exterior mexicana exportar ilegalmente cada año un millón de los suyos a Estados Unidos para evitar la necesaria reforma en su país e influir en la política interior estadounidense.

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  País, Hogar, Años

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• Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

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  Believe, Character, Past

  Victor Davis Hanson (2010). “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

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  Americanism, Consequence

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• Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

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  Sleep, Soldier, Shadow

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• Las sociedades occidentales, desde la antigua Atenas hasta la Roma imperial y la república francesa, rara vez se derrumbaron por escasez de recursos o porque los enemigos extranjeros resultaran demasiado numerosos o formidables en armas, incluso cuando esos enemigos eran macedonios o germanos sombríos. Más bien, en tiempos de paz y prosperidad surgió una visión irreal del mundo más allá de sus fronteras, producto de la insularidad provocada por el éxito, y una arrogancia intelectual que para algunos puede ser el desafortunado subproducto de una sociedad ilustrada.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• Las élites occidentales -beneficiarias de 60 años de paz y prosperidad logradas gracias a los sacrificios para derrotar al fascismo y al comunismo- son infelices en su madurez tardía, y muestran poca gratitud o idea de lo que les dio tal latitud. Si no pueden encontrar la perfección en la historia, no ven nada bueno.

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  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Years

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• Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

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  Disgusting, Ideological

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.

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  Spiritual, Military, Dark

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• It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.

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  Actitud, Pensamiento, Gobierno

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

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  Reflection, Majority, Culture

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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

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  Military, Fighting, Technology

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