Quote of the Week: John Michell, “Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist”
“As Ian Sommerville put it: every day the queue at the post office grown longer, until one day it is no longer a queue but…
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Quote of the Week: Kenneth Clark, “Civilisation”
“Historians usually consider the tenth century almost as dark and barbarous as the seventh. That is because they look at it from the point of…
Quote of the Week: Arthur Bryant, “Set in a Silver Sea”
“Rome had grown out of greatness of individual character. It became a community in which individual character counted for nothing compared with an abstraction which…
Quote of the Week: Dinesh D’Souza “Dartmouth Review”
“Typically, the conservative seeks to conserve, to hold on to the values of the existing society. But what if the existing society is liberal? What…
Quote of the Week: Diana West “The Death of the Grown-Up”
“And therein lies Hitler’s revenge – the cultural leveling that either emerged from, or was, in some crucial way, accentuated by natural outrage over the…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“The meaningful moral choice is not between conforming and nonconforming but between conforming to the ephemeral, stereotyped values of the moment and conforming to the…
Quote of the Week: Shakespeare, “Taming of the Shrew”
Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: It blots…
Quote of the Week: Maurice Cowling, “The Nature and Limits of Political Science”
“Governments which have ‘succeeded’ (in an administrative or governmental sense) may nevertheless ‘fail’ in an electoral sense; and there is no reason to suppose that…
Quote of the Week: Sean Gabb, Address to Conservative Future
“A Cameron Government, as I have said, seems willing to try coexistence with the Establishment. The Thatcher Government set out to fight and defeat an…
Quote of the Week: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution”
“Everything that has been said herein provides grounds for a practical observation. “Spirits marked by this interior Revolution might conserve a counter-revolutionary attitude in respect…