"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions... Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead bad in his own and others’ eyes, so that he won’t hear reproaches, curses, but will receive praise and honors."

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

"Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue."

~Giovanni Ruffini

“We ask God to free us from ‘God’
in so far as we conceive of God.”

~Meister Eckhart

“With the destruction of the family, the spiritual traditions of the family perish forever; when spiritual values are destroyed, then unrighteousness predominates the entire society.”

The Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 1, Verse 39

“Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.”

+St. Elisabeth Ann Seton

"We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

"When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy."

~C.S. Lewis

"The world is miserable because men live beneath themselves; the error of modern man is that he wants to reform the world without having either the will or the power to reform man, and this flagrant contradiction, this attempt to make a better world on the basis of a worsened humanity, can only end in the very abolition of what is human, and therefore the abolition of happiness too. Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven, reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him away from the reign of the passions, from the cult of matter, quantity, and cunning, and reintegrating him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we would even say: into the world of sufficient reason."

~Frithjof Schuon

"Wisdom, humility, caution, moderation, justice, mercy, discretion, constancy, benevolence, chastity and temperance. With these anchors you should fix in God the cable so that it will hold the ship of your mind.”

+Saint Augustine

„It is likely… that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves."

~Richard M. Weaver

“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.”

~G.K. Chesterton

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good in others."

~Plato

"The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair."

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Evil always takes advantage of ambiguity."

~G.K. Chesterton

“If we want something to endure, we strive for beauty, not for efficiency.”

~Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"There are wolves hiding in the gray flock; characters who still know what freedom is. This is a ruler's worst nightmare."

~Ernst Jünger

"Man created in the divine image, the protagonist of a great drama in which his soul was at stake, was replaced by man the wealth seeking and consuming animal.“

~Richard M. Weaver

“It is in the irony of Providence that the more man comes to control the material world about him, the more does he lose control over the effects of his action; and it is when he is remaking the world most speedily that he knows least whither he is driving.”

~Hilaire Belloc

"No large scale society has ever held together for long without a religion."

~Bruce Carlton

"No lasting civilisation will ever be founded upon philosophical and social ideologies."

~Alexis Carrel

The heroic quality rejoices in the struggles by which its virtue is approved, and glories in the triumph with which it is finally adorned. — B.M. Palmer