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Conservatism Quotes Flashcards

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Ayn Rand on society

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‘Civilisation is the process of setting man free from men’

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Rand on society/state

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‘Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights’

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Rand on human nature

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‘Supremacy of reason’

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Hobbes on a natural state

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‘Poor, solitary, nasty, brutish and short’

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Hobbes’ social contract theory

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  • People sacrifice freedom for law and order
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Hobbes on authority

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‘It can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it’s

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Hobbes on human imperfection

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‘The source of every crime is some defect of the understanding’

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Nozick on the state

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Natural justice - justice is served by considering what would occur naturally, without state interference

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Nozick on the economy

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Taxation is ‘legalised theft’

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Nozick on the economy/hierarchy

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Welfare is ‘on a par with forced labour’

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Nozick on the state

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‘How much room do individual rights leave for the state’

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Oakeshott on tradition/pragmatism

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‘A known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better’

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Oakeshott on human imperfection

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‘Boundless and bottomless’ - on the political world

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Oakeshott on tradition

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‘To prefer the familiar to the unknown’

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Burke on paternalism/society

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‘Good order is the foundation of all good things’

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Burke on paternalism/society

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‘Monarchy, aristocracy and property’

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Burke on paternalism/organic society

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‘Natural aristocracy’

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Burke on tradition

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‘The law of our creator’

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Burke on pragmatism

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‘Change in order to conserve’

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Chesterton on tradition

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‘Democracy of the dead’

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Thatcher on society

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‘No such thing as society, only individuals and families’

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De Maistre on human imperfection

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‘Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free’

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De Maistre on paternalism

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‘Willing and complete subordination to the master’

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Thatcher on the state

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‘Very strong government in that role’

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Thatcher on the state/economy

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‘Less tax and more law and order’

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Noel O’Sullivan on human imperfection

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‘Conservatism is a philosophy of human imperfection’

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Ian Gilmour on pragmatism

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‘The wise conservative travels light’

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Hayek on the economy

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‘Dead hand’

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Kristol on the state

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‘A welfare state, properly conceived can be an integral part of a conservative society’

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O’Sullivan on human imperfection

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‘Imperfect and imperfectable’

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