Arrows and Maxims
By
Michel Klonovsky*
One of the achievements of modern art has been to provide even coprophils with a proper aesthetic environment.
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What is worse: communication or ex-communication?
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When enough zealots subscribe to it, democracy may well turn totalitarian.
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The height of hypocrisy; the idea that in every child there is a Mozart or an Einstein.
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Had it not been for the numerous men who cooperate with it, feminism would have been limited to case studies in psychology textbooks.
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Where there is no enemy, the pariah is needed to create unity.
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Only when there are no elites does the term “elite” turn into a swearword.
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To be a “politically engaged” artist means dreaming of many engagements.
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The more just the war, the more numerous the dead civilians.
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One handout to a beggar is worth more than twenty volumes on the origins of poverty.
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The cathedrals of feminism are the abortion clinics.
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Never do the eyes of the devil shine as much as when he hears the words: liberty, equality, fraternity.
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Modern dialectics; a woman works longer and longer hours so as to be able to afford proper child care.
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Real cowardice starts at a certain age.
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The more committed to an ideology a historian is, the more likely he is to claim his works are “scientific.”
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Five Frenchmen, five opinions, Five Jews, ten opinions. Five Germans, one opinion.
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No blue-blooded family, however degenerate, could have produced the idiots one finds in any parliament.
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I like feminism. It brings good news. Its emergence means that society’s most important problems have been solved.
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When it comes to trivia shows, the well-educated fail miserably.
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How can one respect a boss who sits behind a computer?
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A so-called “creative” person may be recognized by the fact that he has never invented anything.
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Chess, considered as a test for the intellect, must be unimportant; or else surely there would have been more female grand-masters.
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Gender-equality rests on the idea that one can climb the sea and swim the mountains.
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Not to believe in the effectiveness of prayer, but to cast one’s ballot in elections, does not exactly point to realism.
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What I would love to read: a study of the way Greens behave under a dictatorship.
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Professors are often blinded by their own theories.
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When a woman says no, says the macho, what she means is yes. When a woman says no, say the feminists, what she means is no. Both are right. When a woman says no she may mean either yes or no.
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To denounce racial discrimination is part and parcel of a civilized society; to deny the differences between races, sheer hypocrisy.
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Literary criticism: the parasite needs the tree.
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One outcome of the “sexual revolution” has been to turn Western men and women into slaves of their sexual drives.
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Populism is the democrats’ mistrust of democracy.
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The height of absurdity: to discuss the limits of freedom of expression within those limits.
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As Jonathan Swift wrote, a genius may be recognized by the fact that all the idiots unite against him. Example: Steve Jobs.
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Whoever so much as mentions political correctness immediately becomes its accomplice.
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My generation was the last which had to discover the secrets of sexuality on its own. Nowadays to have sex is to imitate pornographic actors on screen.
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When feminists reach the point where they can no longer find plausible examples of discrimination in their own countries they turn to Africa or else to the ancient world.
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Thank God it was good bourgeois scholars who re-discovered classical antiquity. One shudders to think what would have happened if the field had been left to left-wing “social scientists” or to female professors of gender studies.
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So high is the quality of modern plastic art that none of its creators has ever produced a single failed work.
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Today it is not the Pope who claims to be infallible, it is his opponents
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To be a socialist means preferring the unfreedom of the many to the freedom of a few.
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Wherever right and left are said to have been abolished, it is the left that rules.
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“Adept at multitasking” is what we call those who are incapable of solving an equation or following the thought of a philosopher.
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What a wonderful feeling, to despise a person accused of despising others!
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He would like to become immortal. She would be content with a nice home of her own.
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The nice thing about dying is not having to cope with future technology.
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No tourist has ever stopped to admire a building erected by a socialist, an environmentalist, or a feminist.
* Michael Klonovsky is an author and journalists who works for Focus magazine in Munich. The above is a selection from his book, Aphorisms (in German).