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Quotes from The Present Position — Maurice Cowling

1926–2005 England

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If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill.

The Present Position (1978)

[L]ow-keyed respectability...is the real religion of the English people.

The Present Position (1978)

[It is] rational pessimism that provides the strongest justification for a conservative politics.

The Present Position (1978)

The objection of substance to this position is that, in the hands of those who actually believe it, as Mr Lane has shown at the Race Relations Board, it becomes an exercise in liberal fascism, dedicating itself to the improvement of the nation's mind whether the nation's mind wishes to be improved or not, and showing itself only too willing to suppress expressions of opinion that conflict with it.

The Present Position (1978)

Attribution

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