“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating… — 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
“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
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself. — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“Olympianism is the characteristic belief system of today’s secularist, and it has itself many of the features of a religion. For one thing, the… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share
“To be conservative in politics is to take one’s bearings not from the latest bright idea about how to make a better world, but… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share
“The evident problem with democracy today is that the state is pre-empting—or “crowding out,” as the economists say—our moral judgments. Rulers are adding moral… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share
