The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
History is only written from what remains.
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.
As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction.
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.
