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> [No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/no-modern-nation-has-ever-constructed-a-foreign-policy-that-was/)

[Irving Kristol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-kristol/)

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## More by Irving Kristol

> [I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/i-regard-myself-to-have-been-a-young-trostkyite-and-i-have-not-a/)

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> [As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/as-a-result-of-the-efforts-of-hayek-and-the-many-others-who-share-his/)

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> [ \[Conservatism:\] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/conservatism-our-revolutionary-message-is-that-a-self-disciplined/)

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> [The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/the-problem-is-efforts-by-liberals-to-establish-a-wall-between/)

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> [The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/the-danger-facing-american-jews-today-is-not-that-christians-want-to/)

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> [An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/an-intellectual-may-be-defined-as-a-man-who-speaks-with-general/)

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> [The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/the-enemy-of-liberal-capitalism-today-is-not-so-much-socialism-as/)

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> [It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/it-was-a-new-kind-of-class-war-the-people-as-citizens-versus-the/)

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> [“What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/what-rules-the-world-is-ideas-because-ideas-define-the-way-reality-is/)

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> [The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/the-liberal-paradigm-of-regulation-and-license-has-led-to-a-society/)

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> [If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/if-god-does-not-exist-and-if-religion-is-an-illusion-that-the/)

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> [A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/a-liberal-is-a-person-who-sees-a-fourteen-year-old-girl-performing/)

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> [.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/the-most-intelligent-defender-of-capitalism-in-the-modern-period-is/)

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> [The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/the-really-difficult-moral-issues-arise-not-from-a-confrontation-of/)

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> [If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-kristol/if-you-believe-that-no-one-was-ever-corrupted-by-a-book-you-have-also/)

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