Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving KristolIf your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.
Irving KristolThe danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
Irving KristolAfter all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
Irving Kristol