Russell Kirk Citas

• Los hombres no pueden mejorar una sociedad prendiéndole fuego: deben buscar sus antiguas virtudes y devolverlas a la luz.

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  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.274, Regnery Publishing

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• The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

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  Thinking, Order, Justice

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

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  Responsibility, Order, Moral

  Russell Kirk (1996). “Redeeming the Time”, Isi Books

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• Si quieres tener orden en la mancomunidad, primero tienes que tener orden en el alma individual.

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  Order, Soul, Want

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• 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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  Winning, Thinking, Sides

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.59, Open Road Media

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

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  Cielo, Tierra, Mayo

  Russell Kirk (1957). “The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism”

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• In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.

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  Order, Knowing, Giving

  Russell Kirk (1996). “Redeeming the Time”, Isi Books

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

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  Responsibility, Conservative, Married

  Russell Kirk (1996). “Redeeming the Time”, Isi Books

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• If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

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  Order, Civilization, Ideas

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing

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• The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, Discipline

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.275, Open Road Media

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

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  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

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  Men, Decision, Intuition

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.38, Regnery Publishing

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• Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.

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  Men, Class, Church

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.488, Regnery Publishing

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• No debemos esforzarnos por revisar la historia de acuerdo con nuestras últimas nociones de lo que las cosas deberían haber sido, o con la teoría de que el pasado es simplemente un reflejo del presente...

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  Reflection, Past, Theory

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

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  Rewards, Privilege, Duty

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• 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.

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  Religious, Character, Order

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.472, Regnery Publishing

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• Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

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  Christian, Religious, Insight

  Russell Kirk (1986). “The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty”, Univ Pr of Amer

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

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  Cristiano, Religioso, Iglesia

  Russell Kirk (1986). “The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Nothing is more conservative than conservation

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  Conservative, Conservation

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• If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.

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  Men, Lust, Sensual

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• La decadencia moral primero obstaculiza y luego estrangula el gobierno honesto, el comercio regular e incluso la capacidad de disfrutar genuinamente de los bienes de este mundo. La compulsión se aplica desde arriba mientras la autodisciplina se relaja abajo, y las últimas libertades expiran bajo el peso de un estado unitario.... Desde que la religión ha perdido su imperio sobre las almas de los hombres, la frontera más prominente que dividía el bien del mal ha sido derribada; los reyes y las naciones se guían por el azar y nadie puede decir dónde están los límites naturales del despotismo y la frontera de la licencia.

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  Kings, Men, Self

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

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  Moving, Interesting, Ethics

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

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  Degradation, Conservative, Pollution

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• The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

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  Law, Land, Age

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• 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

  Real, Purpose, Literature

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