Uncompromising Commitment To "Perfection" And "Too Pure Principles" Cripples Conservatives

Alan: Cloaked in too pure principles, perfectionism cripples American conservatives so they can accomplish nothing.

Hannah Arendt: Life, Death And Perfectionism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/02/hannah-arendt-on-life-death-and.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on-too.html

"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The Truth"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-ryan-tells-truth.html

"Faith, Hope, Charity And Divine Desperation"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/faith-hope-charity-and-divine.html

"Do Republicans Do Anything But Piss, Moan, Whine, Bitch?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/do-republicans-only-piss-moan-whine.html

"Are Republicans Insane?" Best Pax Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-republicans-insane-best-pax-posts.html

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

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