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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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bureaucrats
conservative
corruption
government
plato
policy
politics
politics-of-the-united-states
process
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Philip K. Howard |
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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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conservative
liberal
libertarian
politics
progressive
selfishness
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John Kenneth Galbraith |
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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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conservative
inspiring
revolution
revolutionary
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Christopher Hitchens |
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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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conservative
nonconformist
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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careers
conservative
jeopardy
orthodoxy
predecessors
questioning
truth
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Graham Hancock |