Barry Goldwater on Human Nature
With No Apologies: Personal and Political Memoirs (Morrow : 1979), 320 pages.
We have conjured up all manner of devils responsible for our present
discontent. It is the unchecked bureaucracy in government, it is the
selfishness of multinational corporate giants, it is the failure of the
schools to teach and the students to learn, it is overpopulation, it is
wasteful extravagance, it is squandering our national resources, it is
racism, it is capitalism, it is our material affluence, or if we want a
convenient foreign devil, we can say it is communism. But when we
scrape away the varnish of wealth, education, class, ethnic origin,
parochial loyalties, we discover that however much we've changed the
shape of man's physical environment, man himself is still sinful,
vain, greedy, ambitious, lustful, self-centered, unrepentant, and
requiring of restraint.
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