“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,… — Yuval Levin Beauty Copy Share Image
“Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle,” Burke writes.” — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that… — Yuval Levin Civil society Copy Share Image
“Burke argued that political parties were not, as many people insisted, factions each contending for its own particular advantage, but rather were… — Yuval Levin Common good Copy Share Image
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the… — Yuval Levin Civil society Copy Share Image
“Believe me, sir,” he writes in the Reflections, “those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a… — Yuval Levin Character Copy Share Image
“Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It… — Yuval Levin Equality Copy Share Image
“[T]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself.” — Yuval Levin Complexity Copy Share Image
“The middle layers of society, where people see each other face to face, offer a middle ground between radical individualism and extreme… — Yuval Levin Community Copy Share Image
“The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative… — Yuval Levin Good thing Copy Share Image
“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm… — Yuval Levin Politics Copy Share Image
“Indeed, Burke argues that change, understood in this way as “a principle of growth,” is not only permissible but essential, and essential… — Yuval Levin Change Copy Share Image
