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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

But I think it’s quite clear in my work that my orientation isn’t political or doesn’t come out of modern politics.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

I’m afraid that’s in the nature of modern politics – it’s as much conducted by abuse as argument.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.