Rush Limbaugh Quotes

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Isn't that sort of what happened with gay marriage? Right before gay marriage was legalized, everybody was just losing their minds and, like, the worst possible things were happening, and it was just all like it couldn't get any worse, and then it suddenly got a lot better.

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe, in time- after how many executions? - people will come to realize the futility of randomly selecting a few people to die each year.

It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore.

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

We've always had anti-Americans. We've always had left-wing protesters and so forth, but they were always off to the left kooks. They were always oddball nutcases. Now they're not. They come across as ordinary, everyday mainstream people. It just disgusts me. It's so unfortunate, so unnecessary.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.