Quotes by : Russell Kirk

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The....

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

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

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and....

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays....

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

By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us....

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

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write....

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the....