The idea of politics as a conservation in which the collision of opinions is moderated and accommodated, in which what is sought is not truth but peace, has been almost entirely lost, and supplanted by a legalist paradigm in which all political claims and conflicts are modelled in the jargon of rights.
john n. grayEvery country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.
An intelligent Russian once remarked to me,'Every country has its own Constitution.Ours is absolutism moderated byassassination.'