Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself. — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Their [realists'] concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable. National interests… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself. — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a monopoly of… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.” — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“The story of liberalism, as liberals tell it, is rather like the legend of St. George and the dragon. After many centuries of hopelessness… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate,… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into responding to each new problem by… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
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