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…
Tradition
Quote of the Week: HRH Prince of Wales, “Harmony”
“This is the basis of the wisdom transmitted by what is known as ‘tradition’, which is another word that, in the swirl of our ‘anything goes’ post-modern…
Quote of the Week: W. Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”
“It is very difficult to know people and I don’t think one can ever really know any but one’s own countrymen. For men and women…
Quote of the Week: Peter Viereck, “Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment”
“Even so called ‘absolute’ monarchies were in practice limited by such private groups as an independent clergy, nobility, bourgeois Third Estate, guilds of workers and those real…
Quote of the Week: John Kekes, “A Case for Conservatism”
“Some liberals start with a contract that rational and self-interested agents would supposedly arrive at in a hypothetical situation, and evaluate political arrangements on the…
Quote of the Week: Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
“Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…