Kenneth Minogue quotes:
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If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.
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Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
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Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
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Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.
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Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.