The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism Quotes

“The pursuit of perfection is far too important to be handed over to the control and direction of a set of people who by blood, force or election have acquired the right to call themselves 'governors'.”
― Michael Oakeshott, The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism

“A single homogenous line of development is to be found in history only if history is made a dummy upon which to practise the skill of a ventriloquist.”
― Michael Oakeshott, The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism