Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
to-read
(1210)
currently-reading (3)
read (523)
did-not-finish (0)
nonfiction (160)
literary-fiction (149)
currently-reading (3)
read (523)
did-not-finish (0)
nonfiction (160)
literary-fiction (149)
historical-fiction
(59)
political (57)
science-fiction (43)
classic-fiction (32)
post-apocalyptic-fiction (32)
british-fiction (31)
political (57)
science-fiction (43)
classic-fiction (32)
post-apocalyptic-fiction (32)
british-fiction (31)
“In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.”
―
―
“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
―
―
“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
―
―
“One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.”
―
―
“Most of us are not really so arrogant as to think we have a right to remold the world in our image. The best we can do, toward redeeming the states of Europe and Asia from the menace of revolution and the distresses of our time, is to realize our own conservative character, suspicious of doctrinaire alteration, respectful toward history, preferring variety over uniformity, acknowledging a moral order composed of human persons, not of mere political and economic atoms subservient to the state. We have not been appointed the correctors of mankind; but, under God, we may be an example to mankind.”
―
―
Darrin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Darrin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,339 books
|
38 friends
1,324 books
|
97 friends
1,828 books
|
50 friends
937 books
|
39 friends
1,580 books
|
103 friends
192 books
|
66 friends
139 books
|
15 friends
416 books
|
55 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Darrin
Lists liked by Darrin