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• States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
• Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
• Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
• There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
• State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
• Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
• The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
• The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
• The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
• In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
• Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
• Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

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