Kenneth Minogue famous quotes

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.
-- Kenneth Minogue

#People #Capitalism

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.
-- Kenneth Minogue

#Space #Seductive #May

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
-- Kenneth Minogue

#Life Is #Framework #Human Life

Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
-- Kenneth Minogue

#Book #Two #Medicine

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
-- Kenneth Minogue

#Vices #Moral #Virtue

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.
-- Kenneth Minogue

#Planning #Fantasy #Argument

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

Economics is really politics in disguise.