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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.
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What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.
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A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
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There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
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Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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It was a new kind of class war — the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.
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The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
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The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
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An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
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It requires strength of character to act upon one's ideas; it requires no less strength of character to resist being seduced by them.
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[A neoconservative is] a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.
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A liberal is one who says that it's all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a pornographic movie as long as she gets paid the minimum wage.
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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 worst pernicious.
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Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic — or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
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Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie — but only if she is paid the minimum wage.
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That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda
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Born:
January 22, 1920
Died:
September 18, 2009
(aged 89)
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