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- One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all…
- We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean…
- Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth…
- Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to…
- During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from…
- It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are…
- As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking…
- When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have…
- The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.
- Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause,…
- If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will…
- The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
- Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has…
- If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist…
- I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself…
- What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry,…
- We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in…
- I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness…
- America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
- One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.
- One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
- I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not…
- To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes…
- No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
- Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle