Ideologies: quotations

Question 1

Property is “that with which Man…

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…has mixed his labour.” (Locke)

Question 2

“I detest what you say…

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…but I will defend unto the death your right to say it.” (Voltaire)

Question 3

“Power tends to corrupt, and…

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…absolute power corrupts absolutely.” (Lord Acton)

Question 4

Hanoverian society aimed to “keep women in…

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…a state of listless inactivity and stupid acquiescence.” (Wollstonecraft)

Question 5

“That government is best which…

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…governs least.” (Jefferson)

Question 6

The state should for “the greatest happiness…

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…of the greatest number.” (Bentham)

Question 7

Universal suffrage could lead to “the tyranny…

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…of the majority.” (Mill)

Question 8

It is “better to be Socrates…

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…dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.” (Mill)

Question 9

Redistribution of wealth is a “surrender…

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…to socialism.” (Hayek)

Question 10

“If the state is to be enlarged…

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…it must also be improved.” (Hobhouse)

Question 11

Without the restraints of formal authority, human life would be “nasty…

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…brutish and short.” (Hobbes)

Question 12

There is a “chasm between our…

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…desire and our achievement.” (Burke)

Question 13

Conservatism is “more psychology…

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…than ideology.” (Oakeshott)

Question 14

Conservatism has “an instinctive preference for…

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…what is known, an innate fear of the uncertain.” (Oakeshott)

Question 15

Life without law would be “noisy…

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…foolish and flawed.” (Oakeshott)

Question 16

Humans are “freedom-loving…

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…pack animals.” (Nozick)

Question 17

“Society’s present direction…

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…stems from its past development.” (Oakeshott)

Question 18

A hierarchy should be established by “the wiser…

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…stronger and more opulent.” (Burke)

Question 19

The ideal society is “a partnership between those who…

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…are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.” (Burke)

Question 20

“Government should always be the servant…

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…not master, of the people.” (Locke)

Question 21

“When the state becomes flabby…

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…it also becomes feeble.” (Rand)

Question 22

“Conservatives inherit no principles…they simply…

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…go along with whatever situation they inherit.”

Question 23

“The small state…

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…is the strong state.” (Rand)

Question 24

“Tax, for the most part…

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…is theft.” (Nozick)

Question 25

A New Right conservative is “a liberal…

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…mugged by reality.” (Kristol)

Question 26

Private ownership causes “many crimes…

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…wars and murders.” Rousseau

Question 27

For people living in a slum, paying rent and working in a factory, “the notion of freedom or independence…

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…seemed utterly distant.! “ (Hobsbawm)

Question 28

Socialism practises “the politics of Robin…

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…Hood - taking from the rich and then giving to the poor.” (Benn)

Question 29

Historical materialism would eventually lead to a society so perfect it would be “the end…

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…of history.” (Marx and Engels)

Question 30

“From each according to…

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…his ability, to each according to his needs.” (Marx and Engels)

Question 31

“To secure for the workers by…

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…hand or by brain the full fruits of their labour and the most equitable distribution thereof.” (Clause IV)

Question 32

Society has become “infinitely…

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…more complex than Marx could ever have imagined.” (Crosland)

Question 33

“We are intensely relaxed about people…

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…getting filthy stinking rich, as long as they pay their taxes.” (Mandelson)

Question 34

“Over his own body and mind…

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…the individual is sovereign.” (Mill)