“Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.” NeedsSaidCommunityEconomyProgressMastersHabitToughUltimateInfiniteVictimSeriesConservativeObjectivesHouseholdCunningMiraculousThrustRansom Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.” ValuesHabitConservativeTerrorismAdministrationNastyConservative Values Author:Tom Fitton
“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.” HabitBoundsConservativeEnormousAgentsWheelsUprisingOrdinances Author:William James
“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.” MenHumansMatterHuman BeingsHalfConsciousnessRegretOughtHabitConservativeEnormousAgentsMiserableHabitualIndecision Author:William James