“Manfredo -- Your Excellency -- how can you, even you, hope...?" "Life is a jest, and all things show it, my dear,"… — 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
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much. — 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
“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
“Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith. — 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
“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
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
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — 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
