Monday, September 13, 2010

wisdom?

"A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged."
-- common bit of modern American folk wisdom

"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
-- Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, supposedly quoting another common bit of modern American folk wisdom


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3 comments:

Rhesus said...

what about libertarians?

Kevin Kim said...

Good question. I think you'll have to invent the expression.

A libertarian is an anarchist who's been...?

(...taxed?)

Rhesus said...

a mentally taxed anarchist...