Kenneth Minogue Quotes

• Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

  Kenneth Minogue

  People, Capitalism, Ifs

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• Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Life Is, Framework, Human Life

  Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.13, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Vices, Moral, Virtue

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Planning, Fantasy, Argument

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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• Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Space, Seductive, May

  Kenneth Minogue (2000). “Politics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Book, Two, Medicine

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