Quote by Russell Kirk

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…

— Russell Kirk

“And yet, Burke might have countered, once the masses were fated by the laws of political economy to toil in misery, what else was…

— Karl Polanyi

“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

“[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

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so…

— Daniel Defoe

“But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things…

— Trevanian

“By the time we came to understand the consequences of our revised patterns of consumption, the damage had been done to our waistline, longevity,…

— Franklin Foer

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“We just cannot fulfill the thirst of the society”

— seerat ahuja

“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they…

— Idries Shah

“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the…

— William Graham Sumner