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Men Quotes by Russell Kirk
- 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,…
- 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,…
- True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the…
- ...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.
- 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…
- The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by…
- Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature…
- To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an…
- ...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…
- And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared…
- Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of…
- Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.…
- Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of…
- Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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