I Am Not A Conservative — Neo

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, And All The Others Knew They Were Giving Rights To Vulgarity. But In So Doing In Addition To Caring For Man's Well-being They Were Providing Rights For Themselves.

There Is A Perennial And Unobtrusive View That Morality Consists In Such Things As Telling The Truth, Paying One's Debts, Respecting One's Parents And Doing No Voluntary Harm To Anyone. Those Are All Things Easy To Say And Hard To Do; They Do Not Attract Much Attention, And Win Little Honor In The World.

Fathers And Mothers Have Lost The Idea That The Highest Aspiration They Might Have For Their Children Is For Them To Be Wise... Specialized Competence And Success Are All That They Can Imagine.

Culture As Art Is The Peak Expression Of Man's Creativity, His Capacity To Break Out Of Nature's Narrow Bounds, And Hence Out Of The Degrading Interpretation Of Man In Modern Natural And Political Science.

Sycophancy Toward Those Who Hold Power Is A Fact In Every Regime, And Especially In A Democracy, Where, Unlike Tyranny, There Is An Accepted Principle Of Legitimacy That Breaks The Inner Will To Resist.... Flattery Of The People And Incapacity To Resist Public Opinion Are The Democratic Vices, Particularly Among Writers, Artists, Journalists And Anyone Else Who Is Dependent On An Audience.