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“If the political truths stated or approximated by Machiavelli were widely known by men, the success of tyranny and all the other forms of oppressive political rule would become much less likely. A deeper freedom would be possible in society than Machiavelli himself believed attainable.”
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
“He does no dreaming about a “perfect state” or “absolute justice.” In fact, Mosca suggests what I had occasion to mention in connection with Dante: namely, that political doctrines which promise utopias and absolute justice are very likely to lead to much worse social effects than doctrines less entrancing in appearance; that utopian programs may even be the most convenient of cloaks for those whose real aims are most rightly suspect.”
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
“Love, by its very nature, is not secure; we keep wanting to make it so.”
― Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time (Norton Professional Books
― Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time (Norton Professional Books
“America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology.”
― Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism
― Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism
“Three kinds of mass organization predominate in contemporary Western society: the mass corporation in the economy, the mass state in government, and the mass organizations of culture and communication. The latter include not only the media of mass communication, one of the most important instruments by which the managerial elite disciplines and controls the mass population, but also all other mass organizations that disseminate, restrict, or invent information, ideas, and values advertising, publishing, journalism, film and broadcasting, entertainment, religion, education, and institutions for research and development.”
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