[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.
It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when mode… - Irving Kristol
It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when mode…
- Irving Kristol
A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges. - Irving Kristol
A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. - Irving Kristol
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality. - Irving Kristol
A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book. - Irving Kristol
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at… - Irving Kristol
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at…
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful. - Irving Kristol
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of n… - Irving Kristol
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of n…
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