Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “Green Philosophy”
“Even if we thought, as Peter Singer and his followers seem to think, that there is a class of uniquely reasonable people who will be…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Jonathan Bowden, Interview at the Union Jack Club, 21 November 2009
“Q. Why aren’t you a liberal?” “A. Well, I think basically because liberalism is not a three dimensional view of life. I don’t think it’s at all deep…
Quote of the Week: Quintin Hogg, “The Case for Conservatism”
“The profit motive is accepted and is used as the normal driving force, but it is not permitted to dominate, for if it does we…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“Rights expand to meet the egos of those for whom freedom is nothing but unconstrained action (The only good that deserves the name, says Mill,…
Quote of the Week: Patrick Buchanan, “1992 Republican National Convention Speech”
“There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Conservatism Revisited”
“What worries the conservative is not so much the liberal as his grandson. The liberal himself is a benign and beamish soul, as well behaved…
Quote of the Week: Russell Kirk, “The Paleoconservatives”
“Traditions also have been defended upon empirical grounds. That a society seems to have thrived when it obeyed the dictates of tradition, and seemed to…
Quote of the Week: Guillaume Faye, “Archeofuturism”
“The system, which is running out of steam, is actually trying to operate a democtomy: a ‘restrictive amputation of democracy.’ This is where it’s gotten. The…
Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
“Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels …
Quote of the Week: John Horvat II, “Return to Order”
“Contrast Between the Modern and Organic States “The modern State accomplishes its role by instituting an all-powerful bureaucratic system of legal norms to safeguard and regulate the private…