Quotes by Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk

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

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Men

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

Government

Healthy

Liberty

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

Heart

Interesting

Order

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.

Century

Men

Suicide

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

Christian

Religious

School

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

Loneliness

Men

Pride

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

Conservative

Married

Responsibility

Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.

Humility

Men

Vanity

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.

Sides

Thinking

Winning

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Quotes by Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk

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

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

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

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.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

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

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

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.

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