The Abolition of Liberty
“The single most serious mistake made by modern democracies is to imagine that criminality can be contained or discouraged by being more considerate or kinder to criminals. By doing so, they make it plain that they think that crime is caused, and thus excused, by bad
conditions. They imply that they do not belive crime to be absolutely wrong in itself. The next next step in this logic, which its suporters tend to hide from themselves, is that everybody is a potential criminal whose good behaviour depends only on his good fortune…….This belief demolishes the whole idea of a middle class, open to all who are diligent and self-disciplined, who will then be rewarded by a more abundant life.”
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“It may even solve the mystery of the elite’s destructive hatred for grammar schools where the poor learned the virtues of the middle class and were enabled to join it. The comprehensive system, with its equally passionate loathing for selection by ability, is actively designed to ensure that the process of individual self-improvement is halted. Its main effect is to trap its pupils in whatever social, economic, racial and cultural place they happen to be at the age of eleven.”
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“The law of the new elite, based on utopian social engineering, is displacing the older law, based on common sense and Christian morals.”
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