“If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.” IfsWayShouldPoliticalPoliticsDestinyFeminismRegardUpliftingOpponentsPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessPublicists Book:The Art of Being Ruled Source: The Art of Being Ruled
“Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.” ShouldEnoughPoliticsWishGoalTermResultsPrinciplesIdealsUltimateDebatePursueThanksGrantedOpponentsDestinationSpellsRevealingDefiningPredictableNegligence Author:Joseph Sobran
“We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."” MayWisdomDesireOrderFightingPoliticsPoorEconomyRichConditionsBecomingOpponentsLiberalismInhuman Author:Hilaire Belloc
“To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.” PoliticsPrinciplesDemocracyAuthorityTreatsMereDefinitionsOpponentsBetrayTotalitarianismSubversive Author:Jean Francois Revel
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.” ArtPoliticalPoliticsKnowingOpponentsBelts Author:Konrad Adenauer