The Revolutionary Center Quotes

“The fear of mob rule had deep roots. Plato warned that the mob’s taste for plunder and demagoguery leads to the rule of tyrants. Aristotle maintained that mob rule is democracy’s ‘dark shadow’ just as tyranny is kingship’s dark shadow. Medieval thinkers invented a slew of”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

“Yet for all its evils power is essential to the functioning of society. Without a centripetal force”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

“Power eats away at the soul of even the best of us: Lord Acton repeatedly chastised Gladstone”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

“Many of the most serious threats to liberty came instead from the power of popular opinion in various forms”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

“What he alternately called the ‘despotism of custom”
― Adrian Wooldridge, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism