Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke, “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: René Guénon, “An Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines”
“Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in ‘progress’ and in ‘evolution’, that is to say since a little more than a century…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “The Servile Mind”
“Political correctness is not merely the imposition of rules of sensitivity on us; it is also the demand that incorrect thoughts expressing the forbidden attitudes…
Quote of the Week: Thomas Carlyle, “The Latter Day Pamphlets”
“The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Heirarchy [sic]; large liberty of ‘voting’ there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and…
Quote of the Week: Robert Lewis Dabney, “Discussions”
“These attempts to do the impossible illustrate the most absurd enterprise of all: the attempt of our modern materialistic infidels to abolish religion. The Commune…
Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
“But most conservatives have distrusted ideological crusades, especially those which remind them of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman and profess to stand at Armageddon and battle…
Quote of the Week: Adam L. Tate (on Nathaniel Tucker), “Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals”
“Moral behavior, a central component of society, rested on the strength of the will. Tucker called the human will ‘the master of DESTINY.’ For Tucker,…
Quote of the Week: Justin Raimondo, “Reclaiming the American Right”
“In the post-Cold War world, libertarians and authentic conservatives are rediscovering their common Old Right heritage not in order to satisfy some purely scholarly impulse,…
Quote of the Week: George Nash, “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945”
“For radical libertarianism (or anarchism, or radical capitalism – the names seemed interchangeable) drew most of its support not from established right-wing intellectuals but from…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“The remedy for such a failure of the man at the top to Curb his desires does not lie, as the agitator would have us…