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“Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.” quote by Kenneth Minogue — Download Open image

“Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.”

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“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The university, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretension with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat…

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“Their [realists'] concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conﬂicts and make them more intractable. National interests are in some degree negotiable; rights, in principle, are not. International organizations such as the United Nations have not been conspicuously successful in bringing peace, and it is likely that the states of the world would…

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“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a monopoly of force is a slow loss of civil sensitivity. The term “democracy” is strictly a constitutional belief about how authority is generated, but today it most commonly commends rather than names a government that serves some particular…

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Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

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Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

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“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.”

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“The story of liberalism, as liberals tell it, is rather like the legend of St. George and the dragon. After many centuries of hopelessness and superstition, St. George, in the guise of Rationality, appeared in the world somewhere about the sixteenth century. The first dragons upon whom he turned his lance were those of despotic kingship and religious intolerance. These…

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“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate,…

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If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped…

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“Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into responding to each new problem by…

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Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox…

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“Olympianism is the characteristic belief system of today’s secularist, and it has itself many of the features of a religion. For one thing, the…

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