Quotes by Irving Kristol

Irving Kristol

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

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…only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as “nonpatisan, nonprofit.” Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as “right-wing” or “conservative.”

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…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 nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

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[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.

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A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

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A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she’s being paid minimum wage.

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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.

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A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

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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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Quotes by Irving Kristol

Irving Kristol

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

…only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as “nonpatisan, nonprofit.” Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as “right-wing” or “conservative.”

[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.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she’s being paid minimum wage.

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.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

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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