Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered Book

"Thus arose the "armed doctrine," an inverted religion, employing central political power and strength of arms to enforce conformity to its "rational" creed. Through destruction of ancient institutions and beliefs, the way must be cleared to Utopia. Since Burke's day, the label "ideology" has been affixed to what he called "the armed doctrine" - political fanaticism, promising general redemption and idyllic general happiness to be achieved through radical social alteration.
But Utopia will never be found here below, Burke knew; politics is the art of the possible, not of perfectibility. We will never be as gods. Improvement is the work of slow exploration and persuasion, never unfixing old interests at once. Mere sweeping innovation is not reform. Once a memorial moral habits are broken by the rash utopian, once the old checks upon will and appetite are discarded, the inescapable sinfulness of human nature asserts itself: and those who aspire to usurp the throne of God find that they have contrived a terrestrial Hell."