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

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

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

Kenneth Minogue

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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 Minogue

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Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is... by Kenneth Minogue

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

Kenneth Minogue

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

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Kenneth Minogue

moral virtue vices

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

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A reactionary is someone with a clear and comprehensive vision of... by Kenneth Minogue

A reactionary is someone with a clear and comprehensive vision of an ideal world we have lost.

Kenneth Minogue