Peter Kreeft Quotes

Conservative is the new counter culture, and I consider myself to be a member of the counter culture.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

Sometimes, when a tide starts to sweep, it makes no difference what the traditions are.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance.

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you. They cannot tell whether you are right or wrong, but they know that you are guilty of a pragmatical assumption of superiority over them which they do not like.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.