James Burnham Quotes

• An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

  James Burnham

  Attitude, Thinking, Experience

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• El liberalismo es la ideología del suicidio occidental.

  James Burnham

  Suicide, Liberalism, Ideology

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• The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

  James Burnham

  Hunger And Poverty, Egalitarianism, Economic

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• Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

  James Burnham

  Alternatives, Problem, No Problem

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• Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.

  James Burnham

  Peace, War, Favors

  James Burnham (1967). “The War We are in: The Last Decade and the Next”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

  James Burnham

  Class, Liberty, Groups

  "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.

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