Vladimir Paley
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·18 günde okudu
·Okunma: 28 Aralık 2025 14:58
·2025 74. kitabı
Reklam
"Now we had to accept the proposition that the State was the ultimate factor in all our affairs, and its institutions, both admini-strative and parliamentary, the final repository of authority. This meant, as the Communist régimes based on these principles have proved, that the freedom of the individual and the framework of the law could be manipulated to suit the expediency of the State. But natural law should take precedence over State authority. It can only be maintained by making Christian principles the funda-mental basis of all forms of government. And this is nowhere more necessary than in a democracy in which parliament arrogates to itself supreme powers."
"A conservative must always be progressive. Tradition and principles are basic values,but conservatism implies their application to changing circum-stances. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and at an ever increasing speed in the first half of our century, we have witnessed a gigantic and fundamental conflict. Advances in tech-nique have tended to mechanize the human being, and individuality is in constant danger of becoming submerged in this vast levelling process. The threat to the body politic has increased with the con-version of individuals into 'the masses' a Marxist weapon in the struggle to overturn the capitalist system. Collectivist philosophies, combined with the materialist conception of history, proclaim the overthrow of those Christian principles which have provided for two thousand years the basis of the Western world's growth. The Moscow brand of Communism has already triumphed in most of Eastern Europe, and the whole process of regarding the State as the tool of the 'repressed working classes' has made great inroads in other countries. The problem has been to find some means of combating these forces."
"A conservative must always be progressive. Tradition and principles are basic values, but conservatism implies their application to changing circumstances."
Reklam