Russell Kirk Quotes About Character

• 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

  Religious, Character, Order

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

• Para frenar la centralización y la usurpación del poder... necesitamos un nuevo laissez-faire. El viejo laissez-faire se basaba en una mala comprensión de la naturaleza humana, una exaltación de la individualidad (en el carácter privado a menudo una virtud) a la condición de un dogma político, que destruyó el espíritu de comunidad y redujo a los hombres a tantos átomos equipolentes de la humanidad, sin sentido de la fraternidad o propósito.

  Russell Kirk

  Character, Men, Community

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

• The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

  Russell Kirk

  Communication, Character, Men

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