6 quotes found
“[P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.”
“Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home”
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”
“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accu...”
“Thirty years later, his regime had accomplished its historical task. Economic development had transformed Spanish society, radical mass politics had been extinguished, and democracy was no longer h...”
“Structurally, by reason of their smaller numbers and greater resources, virtually all ruling classes enjoy an advantage over the ruled in their capacity for collective action. Their internal lines ...”
