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Kenneth Minogue Quotes

1930–2013 Australia

Kenneth Minogue (September 11, 1930 – June 28, 2013) was an Australian author and political theorist.

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We should never doubt that nationalizing the moral life is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Life is a better teacher of virtue than politicians.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little. Everything depends on the wisdom of the ruler.

However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary society.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

create a totally androgynous (and manipulable) world where men and women would become virtually indistinguishable.

is its openness to talent wherever found, the feminist demand for collective quotas has overturned the basic feature of our civilization.

radical doctrines to bear on all areas of governmental concern

replace achievement with quota entitlements.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kenneth Minogue (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.