I Profoundly Believe It Takes A Lot

They Are Men And Women Who Tend To Believe That The Human Being Is Perfectible And Social Progress Predictable, And That The Instrument For Effecting The Two Is Reason; That Truths Are Transitory And Empirically Determined; That Equality Is Desirable And Attainable Through The Action Of State Power; That Social And Individual Differences, If They Are Not Rational, Are Objectionable, And Should Be Scientifically Eliminated; That All People And Societies Strive To Organize Themselves Upon A Rationalist And Scientific Paradigm.

One Must Recently Have Lived On Or Close To A College Campus To Have A Vivid Intimation Of What Has Happened. It Is There That We See How A Number Of Energetic Social Innovators, Plugging Their Grand Designs, Succeeded Over The Years In Capturing The Liberal Intellectual Imagination. And Since Ideas Rule The World, The Ideologues, Having Won Over The Intellectual Class, Simply Walked In And Started To Run Things. Run Just About Everything. There Never Was An Age Of Conformity Quite Like This One, Or A Camaraderie Quite Like The Liberals'.

I Profoundly Believe It Takes A Lot Of Practice To Become A Moral Slob.

I Find It Easier To Believe In God Than To Believe Hamlet Was Deduced From The Molecular Structure Of A Mutton Chop.

They Told Me If I Voted For Goldwater, He Would Get Us Into A War In Vietnam. Well, I Voted For Goldwater And That's What Happened.