Fourth Documentary Screening with Honoured Guest, Sen. Cory Bernardi, 8 April 2013
Last month, on Monday 8 April 2013, the Sydney Traditionalist Forum hosted its fourth documentary screening, the first which was attended by an honoured guest:…
Morality
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…
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: 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…
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Minogue, “The Servile Mind”
“A conception of society as a set of people relating to each other only as active and passive agents in the activity of excluding, disadvantaging,…
Quote of the Week: Allen Tate, “Essays of Four Decades”
“The kind of property that sustains the traditional society is not only not hostile to a unified moral code; it is positively the basis of…
Quote of the Week: Paul Elmer More, “Aristocracy and Justice”
“There is, in fact, a terrible confusion hidden in the New Morality, an ulcerous evil that is ever working inward. Sympathy, creating the desire for…
Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “Erasing America”
“In the traditional or Classical-Christian view, life is experienced as participation in (or as rebellion against) a comprehensive order of existence – natural, social and…
Quote of the Week: Edward Shils “Tradition”
“Some of the ideals of the Enlightenment have not been realised. Others have been realised and are contradictory, and as a result, evil potentialities have…