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Quote of the Week: Enoch Powell, “Freedom & Reality”
“‘Why?’ the people used to ask me, ‘is the Government bringing these people into our country in ever-growing numbers? And where is it all going to end?’ I tried to explain that the law of England could...
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Quote of the Week: Andrew Fraser, “Monarchs and Miracles”
“The Crown has always been under a positive duty to protect the spirit of British liberty. That obligation became especially compelling once universal suffrage permitted every elected government to...
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Quote of the Week: Fabian Tassano, “Mediocracy”
“The idea of defending a principle such as free speech is incompatible with mediocracy, which has room only for one precept, equality. Other principles are dismissed, unless they can be demonstrated to...
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Quote of the Week: H. P. Lovecraft, “The Conservative”
“Aversion to just war can arise from one of four causes; (1) unconscious physical cowardice engendered by long years of peace, (2) hysterical idealism produced from incomplete training in pure science,...
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Quote of the Week: Yukio Mishima, “Confessions of a Mask”
“It’s a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.” ▪ Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (New Directions, 1958) extract from page 107....
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Quote of the Week: Robert H. Dierker Jr., “The Tyranny of Tolerance”
“In The Time Machine, H. G. Wells hypothesized a world after what amounted to nuclear war. There were two strains to the populace, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The former were peaceful children of light;...
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Quote of the Week: Stark Young, “I’ll Take My Stand”
“For such of us as wish to sustain certain elements out of the Southern life, our backs must be against the wall. The diverse and most manifest excellences, such as public improvements, exhilaration,...
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Quote of the Week: Andrew Fraser, “The WASP Question”
“Sooner or later, self-respecting Anglo Saxons who take pride in the blood of Alfred the Great running in their veins, must wake up to smell the smoke of the biocultural bread left burning by the...
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Quote of the Week: Bryce Laliberte, “What is Neoreaction”
“In one sense it the refusal to dialogue with modernism that allows neoreaction to develop, for the very idea of modernism is that dialogue only occurs in the case that one accepts its presuppositions...
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Quote of the Week: Giovan Battista Vico, “The New Science” (1774)
“So that if worship of providence were forbidden, the natural consequence would be their fall, for a nation of fatalists or casualists or atheists never existed in the world, and we saw above that all...
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Quote of the Week: John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”
“Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But...
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Quote of the Week: Michael Anissimov, “A Critique of Democracy”
“The first step to being able to consider democracy as an option, rather than a mandatory necessity for any civilized country, is to go back to the Enlightenment and look at it as a collection of...
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Quote of the Week: Luke Torrisi, Address at the University of Technology Sydney
“The word conservative is perhaps the most grossly misunderstood and misused word in current political dialogue. A lot of people are running around calling themselves conservatives, that quite frankly,...
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Quote of the Week: Mark Butterworth, “Aryndell”
“It was not their only joy, but it was a source of quiet pleasure and a tender delight; the kind any man or woman might have in observing their own family reunion, regardless of petty squabbles,...
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The ANZAC Tradition: Identity and Values
Instead of publishing our own message for this year’s ANZAC remembrance, we feel that the following exchange which occurred during the question and answer session at the 22 April 2015 Quadrant Dinner...
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Quote of the Week: Till Kinzel, Introduction, “Scholia to an Implicit Text”
“Man is an animal that cannot find restfulness in this life, since he cannot just live in a state of self-oblivion within the passing of time. In every instant, Gómez-Dávila claims, man is subjected or...
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Quote of the Week: Eric Voegelin, “The Political Religions”
“When the heart is sensitive and the mind is perceptive, one look at the world will suffice to see the misery of the human creature and to guess at way of salvation; when they are insensitive and dull,...
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Quote of the Week: Theresa Amato, “Grand Illusion”
“For the better part of last century, we have all been steamrolled into a big consensus pot, harmonized into the middle, so we don’t cause any revolutions. Stability über alles. The two parties end up...
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Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America”
“Democracy not only gives the industrial classes a task for letters but also brings an industrial spirit into literature. “In aristocracies readers are few and fastidious; in democracies they are...
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Quote of the Week: Alisdair MacIntyre, “After Virtue”
“It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in...
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