Kenneth Minogue quotes
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“Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.”
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“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 MinogueSource : Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks
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“Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.”
-- Kenneth MinogueSource : Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.13, Oxford Paperbacks
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“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.”
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“Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.”
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“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 MinogueSource : "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.
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