Russell Kirk Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

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

  Russell Kirk

  Responsibility, Conservative, Married

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

• 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.

  Russell Kirk

  Responsibility, Order, Moral

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

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

  Russell Kirk

  Rewards, Privilege, Duty

• 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.

  Russell Kirk

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Discipline

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

• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Country, Ambition, Mind

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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