“After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of ideas'. Political thinking became irredeemably ideological: an imposition of ideas on political life rather than an emergence of… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
[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… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.” — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
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… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the… — Irving Kristol Copy Share
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. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
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