Irving Kristol on Politics
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Irving Kristol, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Irving Kristol, entry #127601: "The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism."
Attributed to Irving Kristol, entry #111286: "Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious."
3 Quotes by Irving Kristol on Politics
"The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism."
"Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious."
"Today there is a new class hostile to business in general, and especially to large corporations. As a group, you find them mainly in the very large and growing public sector and in the media. They share a disinterest in personal wealth, a dislike for the free-market economy, and a conviction that society may best be improved through greater governmental participation in the country's economic life. They are the media. They are the educational system. Their dislike for the free-market economy originates in their inability to exercise much influence over it so as to produce change. In its place they would prefer a system in which there is a very large political component. This is because the new class has a great deal of influence in politics. Thus, through politics, they can exercise a direct and immediate influence on the shape of our society and the direction of national affairs."