Russell Kirk quotes
Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, historian, and writer, celebrated as a principal architect of modern American conservatism. His influential book "The Conservative Mind" revived interest in traditionalist thought in the United States. He championed principles such as order, tradition, and moral values throughout his prolific career. Here are 13 of his quotes:
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.
Russell Kirk
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.
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk
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Occupation: American Historian
Born: October 19, 1918
Died: April 29, 1994
Quotes count: 13
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