"No bloody or unbloody change of society can……" — Leo Strauss
"No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint."
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17 Quotes by Leo Strauss
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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
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The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is…
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A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations…
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One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
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For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
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But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
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God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his…
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If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
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All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for…
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
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The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,
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