Quote of the Week: Julius Evola, “Revolt Against the Modern World”
“Those who begin from a particular traditional civilisation are able to integrate it by freeing it from its historical and contingent aspects, and thus bring…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Need for Nations”
“It is my contention that people need to identify themselves through a first person plural if they are to accept the sacrifices required by society….
Quote of the Week: G. K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy”
“Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. All democrats object to men being…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “Heritage Foundation Lecture”
“The great line of demarcation in modern politics, Eric Voegelin used to point out, is not a division between liberals on one side and totalitarians…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Natural conservatism values and aims to protect the tried and true; both together, because the tried alone may have little in its favor and much against…
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, Interview at the Union Jack Club, 21 November 2009
“Q. In what sense to you understand men and women to be different and in which way should societal and other institutional discrimination reflect those differences?”…
Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “No Easy Answers”
Brown: “Surely Christianity is a religion of gentleness and compassion? Surely above all else we must show to these people this compassion, even if it…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“Now the doctrine of enlightened self-interest is not itself superficial. It has been held by profound thinkers like Aristotle and Buddha. But the self that…
Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “Skepticism and Animal Faith”
“It is true that, quite apart from living discourse, a set of axioms and postulates, as simple as we like, may be posited in the…
Quote of the Week: Matthew Crawford, “Shop Class as Soulcraft”
“Ironically, it is now the managerial elite of international capital that is likely to complain of the false consciousness of those workers on whom the…