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Russell Kirk Quotes

Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world’s richest nations Picture Quote #1

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress Picture Quote #1

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot Picture Quote #1

Some ‘separation’ zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail Picture Quote #1

Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day Picture Quote #1

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don’t mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation Picture Quote #1

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Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education Picture Quote #1

... only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside Picture Quote #1

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology Picture Quote #1

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes Picture Quote #1

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility Picture Quote #1

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery Picture Quote #1

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We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell Picture Quote #1

The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests Picture Quote #1

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital Picture Quote #1

... so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly Picture Quote #1

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 be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite Picture Quote #1

The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life Picture Quote #1

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The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors Picture Quote #1

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul Picture Quote #1

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society Picture Quote #1

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws Picture Quote #1

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty Picture Quote #1

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify Picture Quote #1

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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present Picture Quote #1

Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines Picture Quote #1

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings Picture Quote #1

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained Picture Quote #1

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light Picture Quote #1

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Global environmentalists have said and written enough to leave no doubt that their goal is to destroy the prosperous economies of the world’s richest nations. (Russell Kirk Quotes) Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress. (Russell Kirk Quotes) ...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot. (Russell Kirk Quotes) Some ‘separation’ zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail (Russell Kirk Quotes) Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day (Russell Kirk Quotes) It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don’t mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation (Russell Kirk Quotes) Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education (Russell Kirk Quotes) ... only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside (Russell Kirk Quotes) Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology (Russell Kirk Quotes) There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes (Russell Kirk Quotes) Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility (Russell Kirk Quotes) Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery (Russell Kirk Quotes) We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell (Russell Kirk Quotes) The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests (Russell Kirk Quotes) If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital (Russell Kirk Quotes) ... so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly (Russell Kirk Quotes) 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 be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite (Russell Kirk Quotes) The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life (Russell Kirk Quotes) The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors (Russell Kirk Quotes) If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul (Russell Kirk Quotes) A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society (Russell Kirk Quotes) The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws (Russell Kirk Quotes) A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty (Russell Kirk Quotes) Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify (Russell Kirk Quotes) We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present (Russell Kirk Quotes) Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines (Russell Kirk Quotes) Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings (Russell Kirk Quotes) The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained (Russell Kirk Quotes) Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light (Russell Kirk Quotes)