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Top 20 John Derbyshire Quotes (2025 Update)

John Derbyshire Quote: “I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.”

1. “I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”

2. “Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.”

3. “I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.”

4. “Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.”

5. “Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Biophobia is as much a part of a politician’s basic equipment as a sharp suit.”

6. “Biophobia is as much a part of a politician’s basic equipment as a sharp suit.”

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John Derbyshire Quote: “Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.”

7. “Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.”

8. “It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.”

9. “Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.”

10. “I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias.”

11. “The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Puritans don’t laugh – except at the sight of a burning witch.”

12. “Puritans don’t laugh – except at the sight of a burning witch.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency – which we mostly resist – towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.”

13. “Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency – which we mostly resist – towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “A very civilized thing, glass – almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.”

14. “A very civilized thing, glass – almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “If you’re not thinking about numbers, you’re probably not thinking.”

15. “If you’re not thinking about numbers, you’re probably not thinking.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “I never ponder counterfactuals.”

16. “I never ponder counterfactuals.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.”

17. “In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!”

18. “Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.”

19. “Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.”

— John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire Quote: “A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone’s overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.”

20. “A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone’s overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.”

— John Derbyshire

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