Conservatism Flashcards
Burke quote on the State
‘Your representatives owe you their judgement not just their efforts. They should not sacrifice this to your opinion’
Hobbes quote on the state
Government is necessary not because men are bad, but because they care more for individualistic needs more than society
Nosick quote on the state
Victimless crimes such as drug taking should be decriminalised. It is the individuals responsibility not the states to legislate against them doing it
Oakeshott quote on the state
‘Men sail on a boundless and bottomless sea’ and the job of the state is only to keep afloat, not reach a specific destination’
Burke quote on the state
The state without the means to change is without the means of its conservation
Rand quote on society
If civilisation is to survive it is the morality of altruism we need to reject and the morality of rational self interest we need to accept
Burke quote on society
We ‘love the little platoon to which we belong’
‘Society is but a contract the between dead, living and those yet to be born’
Nosick quote on the state
Even the most enterprising individuals are still freedom loving pack animals
Hobbes quote on human nature
‘Life in a state of nature would be solitary, poor, nasty, brustish and short’
Oakeshott
Rather than brutish and short, our lives in a state of nature would more be ‘noisy, foolish and flawed’
Rand quote on the economy
‘Money is the barometer of a society value’
‘The people fit to inherit wealth are those with the ability to make their fortune no matter where they started’
Nosick quote on the economy
‘Taxation is legalised theft’
