Fred Smith on ideologues

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Fred Smith on ideologues

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Political Survival Kit, Quotes |

“Ideologues have created far more horrors than have even the most rampant of business villains. My understanding is that Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung were not motivated by profits.”
– Fred Smith

To which I would add they were also not motivated by religion, which is frequently cited by left-leaning folks as the cause of $huge percentage of wars. For the actual stats on 20th century murders see here.

2 Comments to Fred Smith on ideologues

Rustmeister
October 17, 2008

That page on the Holocaust only addresses Jewish deaths. The actual count was 11,000,00 or so, when you add in the gays, mentally and physically disabled, and other undesirables.

theirritablearchitect
October 18, 2008

“when you add in the gays, mentally and physically disabled, and other undesirables.”

Please keep in mind that the hardliners on the left have it in for us gunnies in the same way as “undesireables” is being used in your sentence. They’d not be in any sort of moral outrage if dubious laws were passed to round us all up and put us in the Gulag to rot, just for owning guns.

DO NOT underestimate these people.