Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have… — 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
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
[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
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
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
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
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share
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
“What rules the world is ideas, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.” — Irving Kristol Copy Share
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
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in… — 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
.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek. — Irving Kristol Copy Share
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods — Irving Kristol Copy Share
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by… — Irving Kristol Copy Share
