Conrad Black Quotes

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

I don't have any shame.

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional.

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.