Russell Kirk Quotes About Prejudice

• 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.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Decision, Intuition

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

• La decadencia de los viejos prejuicios aristocráticos contra la especulación codiciosa, el socavamiento de la fe cristiana ortodoxa (que prohíbe la avaricia)... el envilecimiento de la agricultura hasta convertirla en un burdo afán de lucro: estos aspectos particulares de una vasta y voraz concentración en los beneficios son otros tantos ejemplos de nuestra pecaminosa confusión de valores.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Illustration, Agriculture

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

• 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

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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