Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.
Russell KirkMen cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
Russell KirkI am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.
Russell KirkLocke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.
Russell Kirk