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Russell Kirk Quotes: "If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul."

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.




Russell Kirk Quotes: "We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present"

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility."

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.




Russell Kirk Quotes: "If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself."

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery."

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings."

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.




Russell Kirk Quotes: "A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty."

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth ."

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed."

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education."

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Nothing is more conservative than conservation"

Nothing is more conservative than conservation




Russell Kirk Quotes: "The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith."

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle."

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside."

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist."

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property."

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much."

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties."

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress."

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes."

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell."

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution."

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists"

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists



Russell Kirk Quotes: "...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly."

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man."

And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology."

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot."

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained."

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society."

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law."

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law."

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.



Russell Kirk Quotes: "To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future."

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.