Russell Kirk Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• 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.

  Russell Kirk

  Thinking, Order, Justice

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

• 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.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Knowing, Giving

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

• The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

  Russell Kirk

  Wisdom, Order, Justice

  Russell Kirk (1990). “The Conservative Constitution”, Gateway Books

• The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Law, Giving

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Roots of American Order”, p.22, Open Road Media

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