The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politic… - Russell Kirk
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politic…
- Russell Kirk
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which in… - Russell Kirk
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which in…
Nothing is more conservative than conservation - Russell Kirk
Nothing is more conservative than conservation
Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility. - Russell Kirk
Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to … - Russell Kirk
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to …
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also gen… - Russell Kirk
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also gen…
We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell. - Russell Kirk
We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.
I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let … - Russell Kirk
I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let …
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle. - Russell Kirk
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
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