Irving Kristol citations (35 citations, Page 2)

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Irving Kristol: Citations en anglais

“[A neoconservative is] a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges.”

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Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (1983).
1980s

“The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.”

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The Public Interest, Spring 1973 https://books.google.com/books?id=S2nUuTagIw8C&pg=PA101&dq=The+enemy+of+liberal+capitalism+today+is+not+so+much+socialism+as+nihilism.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjmvTH3aDXAhWMNiYKHfQ_DNwQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=The%20enemy%20of%20liberal%20capitalism%20today%20is%20not%20so%20much%20socialism%20as%20nihilism.&f=false <br class="br">1970s

“What's the point of being the greatest, most powerful nation in the world and not having an imperial role?”

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Quoted in The Reactionary Mind
2000s

“Are we in danger of becoming a nation of cry-babies? Are we becoming a people who panic at the least sign at adversity? Are we becoming a people with a faith not in God or in ourselves, but in a paternalistic government to shelter us from all of life's hardships and misfortunes?”

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Source: Memorandum to Robert T. Hartmann https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0204/1511691.pdf (1976)

“[T]hough affluence is a good thing, and the spirit of compassionate reform is a good thing, in the end a nation survives only to the extent that the spirit of self-discipline and self-sacrifice is strong and vital.”

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Source: Memorandum to Robert T. Hartmann https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0204/1511691.pdf (1976)