There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. Irving Kristol More Quotes by Irving Kristol More Quotes From Irving Kristol ...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative." Irving Kristol organization research wings 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. Irving Kristol dodge abuse responsibility One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during. Irving Kristol caviar unhappy eating Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences. Irving Kristol nice country people Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. Irving Kristol frustrated real want The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility. Irving Kristol cheerful optimistic doe Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned. Irving Kristol phones media lucky I regard myself to have been a young Trostkyite and I have not a single bitter memory. Irving Kristol bitter young memories No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals Irving Kristol foreign-policy acceptable modern Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government. Irving Kristol government strong past .. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek. Irving Kristol hayek modern intelligent If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. Irving Kristol quality democracy care There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work. Irving Kristol adults children people 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. Irving Kristol girl sex years It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. Irving Kristol class war people You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy. Irving Kristol leader commitment ideas 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. Irving Kristol important action years 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. Irving Kristol should young people If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage. Irving Kristol damage awful levels The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state. Irving Kristol wall religious christian
