{"quotes":[{"text":"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.","author":"Theodore J. Kaczynski","tags":["change","conservatism","conservative","culture","democrat","economy","inconsistency","individual","industrialization","liberal","popular-culture","progressivism","reform","republican","society","technology","tradition","traditional","traditional-values"],"id":15911,"author_id":"Theodore+J.+Kaczynski"},{"text":"People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","communism","communists","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","liberty","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists","utopia","utopian","utopian-socialism","utopian-society","utopianism"],"id":15999,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners.","author":"Eric Hobsbawm","tags":["britain","capitalism","economics","education","london","morality","nobel-prize","politics","progressivism","universities","wealth"],"id":27090,"author_id":"Eric+Hobsbawm"},{"text":"There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.","author":"Henry Hazlitt","tags":["economics","fdr","keynes","obama","progressivism"],"id":62309,"author_id":"Henry+Hazlitt"},{"text":"Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","collectivists","communism","communists","freedom","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","progressive","progressivism","socialism","socialists"],"id":71516,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.","author":"Franklin D. Roosevelt","tags":["america","democracy","fascism","progressivism"],"id":74159,"author_id":"Franklin+D.+Roosevelt"},{"text":"I know that no matter how liberal or progressive I profess to be, no matter how successfully, how diligently I seek to be enlightened and nuanced in my understanding of the world and those around me, I know that there still is a tiny, virulent nugget, a germ of prejudice that exists deep within me — the product of those stereotypes and awful jokes of childhood and adolescence, and that it must always be powerfully held at bay by reason, understanding and love.","author":"Michael Winship","tags":["african-americans","enlightenment","liberalism","prejudice","progressivism","race","race-relations","racism","understanding"],"id":112790,"author_id":"Michael+Winship"},{"text":"Neither Fascist Italy nor Spain adopted eugenics as an ideology central to their form of government the way the National Socialist did. However, socialist and progressive nations such as Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway did adopt and implement eugenics. This is because eugenics is the safety valve of a centrally planned economy. Central planners like John Maynard Keynes fear a population that is not as meticulously planned as the economy. They fear the unproductive sectors out-breeding the productive sectors of the population. This is also why Keynes was a lobbyist for the British eugenics movement both before and after The Holocaust.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","eugenics","fascism","holocaust","john-maynard-keynes","nazi","planned-economy","progressive","progressivism","socialism","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":120776,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The more routine that systematised activities are, the more nearly they are of the monotonous character seen in the habits of social animals and the less necessary are master builders; the more novel actions are, the more necessary are master builders. Dislike of the leader and the promoter, though linked emotionally to progressivism, is linked logically to total conservatism. Conversely, an authoritarian approach, natural enough in the instigator of new activities, is unjustified in the mere overseer of routines.","author":"Bertrand De Jouvenel","tags":["conservativism","democracy","direct-democracy","hierarchy","leadership","progressivism"],"id":163095,"author_id":"Bertrand+De+Jouvenel"},{"text":"Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","individual-liberty","individual-rights","individualist","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists"],"id":166678,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}