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“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
― Bureaucracy
― Bureaucracy
“I love the early hours of the day. It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
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“A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that’s what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.”
― Letters to a Young Journalist
― Letters to a Young Journalist
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)”
― Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
― Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
“Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.”
― The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
― The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
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