Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
History is a better guide than good intentions. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
History is a better guide than good intentions.
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame Un… - Jeane Kirkpatrick
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame Un…
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. - Jeane Kirkpatrick
For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.
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