Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
Political theories, once adopted, do not disappear so easily.
A movie can't change anybody; it can only confirm what you already believe.
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Ideas shape the course of history.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.
There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.
All big changes of the world come from words.
How did the progressive Republican Party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower become the reactionary party of Ronald Reagan, the tea party and Paul Ryan? There is nothing random about these ideological shifts. They reflect the party’s — and the nation’s — central unresolved problem: the tension between equality of opportunity and protection of private property.
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
Dr. Kaunda, although he was running a one-party state, was very close to the West, and that is why he achieved as much as he did. But we drifted away from the West to look for new friends.
Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.
The future of the West is not a limitless tending upwards and onwards for all time towards our presents ideals, but a single phenomenon of history, strictly limited and defined as to form and duration, which covers a few centuries
Newt Gingrich has incredible intellectual flexibility. He has been on both sides of almost every issue.
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
