Russell Kirk citáty

Russell Kirk byl americký politický filosof a historik, který svými názory výrazným způsobem ovlivnil americký konzervatismus ve 20. století. Wikipedia

✵ 19. říjen 1918 – 29. duben 1994

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Russell Kirk: 7 citátů0 lajků

Russell Kirk citáty a výroky

„Muži nemohou vylepšit společnost tím, že na ni zapálí oheň: musí hledat své staré ctnosti a přivést je zpět na světlo.“

Russell Kirk: Citáty anglicky

“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”

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

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“Conservatives have no intention of compromising with socialists, but even such an alliance, ridiculous though it would be, is more conceivable than the coalition of conservatives and libertarians.”

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Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

“When heaven and earth have passed away, perhaps the conservative mind and the libertarian mind may be joined in synthesis, but not until then.”

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Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

“What else do conservatives and libertarians profess in common? The answer to that question is simple: nothing. Nor will they ever. To talk of forming a league or coalition between these two is like advocating a union of ice and fire.”

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Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)

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

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The Roots of American Order (1974)