Ernest Van den Haag Quotes

United States, Sociologist
September 15, 1914 – March, 21, 2002.

Ernest van den Haag was a Dutch-born American sociologist, social critic, and author. He was John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University. He was best known for his contributions to National Review.

I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.

Ernest Van den Haag
Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?

Ernest Van den Haag

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

Ernest Van den Haag
- Poverty
- Wealth
- Crime
Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.

Ernest Van den Haag