Occupation: Critic Birth: December 16, 1929 Death: December 19, 2008
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour..
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their ow….
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension..
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage..
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master ….
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done..
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men..
Free men stick their necks out..
The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact becom….
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics int….
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth havin….
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs..