Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Character & Culture”
“The ultra-utilitarians are not only as completely lost for art and literature as the Puritans, but their point of view is far more catching. We…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Conversely, the trade-union movement in the English Speaking world (see pages 84-87) often represents not the massman or Overadjusted Man but an anti-modern, unconsciously conservative…
Quote of the Week: Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind, “The Next Conservatism”
“Through Retroculture, the next conservatism should seek to rebuild our old culture from the bottom up, one individual or family at a time. That is…
Quote of the Week: Richard Viguerie, “Conservatives Betrayed”
“If conservative organizations emulate the Left in seeking and receiving taxpayers’ money, they will become like the Left in other ways too. They will orient themselves towards serving the…
Quote of the Week: Slavoj Žižek, “The Sublime Object of Ideology”
“When a discipline is in crisis, attempts are made to change or supplement its theses within the terms of its basic framework – a procedure one might…
Quote of the Week: Hans-Hermann Hoppe “Democracy: The God that Failed”
“It should be obvious then that and why libertarians must be moral and cultural conservatives of the most uncompromising kind. The current state of moral…
Quote of the Week: Alain de Benoist, “The Problem of Democracy”
“Democracy has changed. It was initially intended to serve as a means for the people to participate in public life by appointing representatives. It has…
Quote of the Week: James Kalb, “Against Inclusiveness”
“It is very difficult for liberal public discussion to reject and suppress the clear indications of science and scholarship, but inclusiveness must do so in order to…
Quote of the Week: Anthony M. Ludovici, “The Sanctity of Private Property”
“Capitalism is a condition in which the best administrator of property in excess of man’s physical and professional need, and the best testamentary disposer of such property,…
Quote of the Week: J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to his Son Concerning Women, Courtship and Romance
“You may meet in life (as in literature) women who are flighty, or even plain wanton — I don’t refer to mere flirtatiousness, the sparring…