Irving Kristol: Quotes about people

Irving Kristol was American columnist, journalist, and writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message … is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.”

Source: Essay in American Spectator Magazine (1977).

“It was a new kind of class war — the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.”

The Question of Liberty in America
About California's 1978 Proposition 13 which limits tax increases without public approval
1970s

“People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.”

1980s
Source: Interview in Reason Magazine (1983).

“Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.”

Capitalism and Socialism: A Theological Inquiry (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1979).
1970s

“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.”

Quoted in "Origin of the Specious", Reason Magazine (July 1997) http://www.reason.com/news/show/30329.html. <br class="br">1990s

“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?”

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