In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

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.