Jonah Goldberg Quote
The young activist who recycles Robert F. Kennedy’s line There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why . . . I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? has no idea he’s a walking, talking cliché, a non-conformist in theory while a predictable conformist in fact. But he also has no idea he’s tapping into his inner utopian.... RFK didn’t coin the phrase (JFK didn’t either, but he did use it first). The line actually comes from one of the worst people of the 20th century, George Bernard Shaw (admittedly he’s on the B-list of worst people since he never killed anybody; he just celebrated people who did).
Jonah Goldberg
The young activist who recycles Robert F. Kennedy’s line There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why . . . I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? has no idea he’s a walking, talking cliché, a non-conformist in theory while a predictable conformist in fact. But he also has no idea he’s tapping into his inner utopian.... RFK didn’t coin the phrase (JFK didn’t either, but he did use it first). The line actually comes from one of the worst people of the 20th century, George Bernard Shaw (admittedly he’s on the B-list of worst people since he never killed anybody; he just celebrated people who did).