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Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99
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politics
policy
bureaucrats
plato
conservative
corruption
politics-of-the-united-states
government
process
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Philip K. Howard |
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There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.
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inspiring
revolutionary
conservative
revolution
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Christopher Hitchens |
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &
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politics
liberal
libertarian
progressive
conservative
selfishness
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John Kenneth Galbraith |
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"We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. "Look!" we're saying. "WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!" We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it."
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nonconformist
conservative
normal
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Jon Ronson |
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Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already announced to be true. They run a very real risk of jeopardizing their careers if they do. In consequence they focus--perhaps to a large extent subconsciously--on evidence and arguments that don't upset the applecart. There might be room for some tinkering around the edges, some refinement of orthodox ideas, but God forbid that anything should be discovered that might seriously undermine the established paradigm.
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truth
careers
predecessors
jeopardy
conservative
questioning
orthodoxy
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Graham Hancock |