Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The enlightened conservative does not believe that the end or aim of life is competition, or success or enjoyment; or longevity; or… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“What is the object of human life? The enlightened conservative does not believe that the end or aim of life is competition;… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Only portions of the globe still enslaved by the enemies of the people refrained from congratulating President Zingu and Premier Villiers-Kolama upon the astounding… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Manfredo -- Your Excellency -- how can you, even you, hope...?" "Life is a jest, and all things show it, my dear," I replied;… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Today, as in the past, we ought to remind ourselves that the true natural law is not a mere congeries of appetites, and that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Men are put into this world, he [the enlightened conservative] realizes, to struggle, to suffer, to contend against the evil that is in their… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human existence. On… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
![“Men are put into this world, he [the enlightened conservative] realizes, to struggle, to suffer, to contend against the evil that is in their neighbors and in themselves, and to aspire toward the triumph of Love. They are put into this world to live like men, and to die like men. He seeks to…” quote by Russell Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f1/russell-kirk-6909_love_men-are-put-into-this-world-he-the-enlig_208424.jpg)
