Michael Oakeshott Quotes on Politics
Michael Oakeshott was a British political philosopher and one of the most distinctive English conservatives of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Michael Oakeshott on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Michael Oakeshott:
“To be conservative is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded.”
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Attributed to Michael Oakeshott:
“In political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination.”
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Attributed to Michael Oakeshott:
“Political education is learning how to participate in an arrangement.”
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Attributed to Michael Oakeshott:
“A tradition of behaviour is a tricky thing to get to know.”