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“The Vice of conservatives is believing that conservatism is a morality test; the vice of liberals is believing that liberalism is an intelligence test”
-Gruntled Center (although I don’t know if they came up with it.)

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6 Responses to “Quote Of The Day”

ford4x4 Says:
February 10th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
That’s a good quote, but it needs some work. You can be a conservative, without having moral values -like me.
Justin Gardner Says:
February 10th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
You can be a conservative, without having moral values -like me.

Do they call those the “Cash Bar Conservatives”?
DosPeros Says:
February 10th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Ken McIntrye comments on this blog are straight on:

In my opinion, however, these claims apply more readily to political activists than to other citizens. For example, the most profound philosophers of the 20th century (Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Gadamer) and the most compelling literary artists of the past 100 years (Eliot, Joyce, Faulkner, Pound) were either uninterested in political life or hostile to liberalism.

The only real problem with this comment is that he should capitalize the “L” in liberalism. It is not classical liberalism that these philosophers and literary genius’ opposed, but the leviathan of the state. So let us continue to slobber in bullheaded rage over social security reform — intelligence, indeed, Jezuus or whatever you want to call Him.
ford4x4 Says:
February 10th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Do they call those the Ã¢â‚¬Å“Cash Bar ConservativesÃ¢â‚¬Â??

You may be on to something there, Justin. That has a nice ring to it.
Gruntled Says:
February 19th, 2006 at 1:19 am
I can confirm that the phrase came to me in a cafe conversation with students. I had been saying the part about liberals for some time. The students pushed me to name the complementary conservative vice. And that post leads on to two more, one on what liberals and conservatives did right, and another (the necessary other shoe) on the vice of centrists.
Justin Gardner Says:
February 19th, 2006 at 5:40 am
I can confirm that the phrase came to me in a cafe conversation with students. I had been saying the part about liberals for some time. The students pushed me to name the complementary conservative vice. And that post leads on to two more, one on what liberals and conservatives did right, and another (the necessary other shoe) on the vice of centrists.

Indeed. We could be seen as the noble class.

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