Form Quote by Roger Scruton

“Burke argued that political parties were not, as many people insisted, factions each contending for its own particular advantage, but rather were bodies of…

— Yuval Levin

“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the…

— Yuval Levin

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that a culture…

— Douglas Murray

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal…

— Tom Robbins

“In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt…

— Francis Stuart Campbell

“Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on the merits…

— Robin D.G. Kelley

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does…

— Revilo P. Oliver

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

— Francis Parker Yockey

The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the…

— Ernst Junger

“Everyone knows that it is irrational to get involved in politics, so, as a matter of course, the rational stay away and only the…

— Eric Robert Morse

“a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth