Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.