4 Quotes & Sayings By Kenneth Minogue

Kenneth Minogue is the author of over 150 books for children and young adults. Most of his children's books fall into the fantasy genre. He was born in Croydon, England and grew up in the south of England and moved to Australia at age 20. After a career in electronics and radio-engineering, he became a full-time writer in 1974 at the age of 40.

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The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society. Kenneth Minogue
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Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little. Kenneth Minogue
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Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal — as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time. Kenneth Minogue