“The Socialist saw plainly the rights of the Society; the Anarchist saw the rights of the Individual. How therefore were these to be reconciled? The Church stepped in at that crucial point and answered, By the Family—whether domestic or Religious. For in the Family you have both claims recognized: there is authority and yet there is liberty. For the union of the Family lies in Love; and Love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.”

~Robert Hugh Benson

"Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended. Men merely finding themselves free found themselves free to dispute the value of freedom."

~G.K. Chesterton

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

~Sophocles

"I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory."

~Cicero

"It is better for you to be defeated while speaking the truth, than to be victorious through deceit."

~Sextus

“We have everything upside down. Where we should be idealists- our moral, economic, and religious lives, we are pragmatic realists. Where we should be realists- our political life, we are instead intransigent idealists.”

~E.H. Looney

“People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.”

~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

'The revolt of the engineer against the architect, of utility building against the transcendental claims of art, has seemingly ended with a total victory for the new powers. But the unity thus achieved has been purchased by allowing a single department, that of the factory, to act as dictator over the rest, and by permitting downright and intolerable violence to be done to the natural demands of individual jobs, for while the material requirements of these may usually be met, the same cannot be said of what may be called the spiritual and emotional content.' - Hans Sedlmayr

"No traditional civilization has ever seen such large masses condemned to obscure, soulless, automatic labor, to slavery which does not even have as its counterpart the high stature and the tangible reality of figures of lords and rulers, but is found imposed in a seemingly innocuous way by the tyranny of the economic factor and the absurd structures of a more or less collectivized society. And the fact that the modern vision of life, in its materialism, has deprived the individual of any possibility of introducing into his destiny an element of transfiguration, of seeing in it a sign and a symbol, the slavery of today is the most gloomy and the most desperate of all that we have ever known."

~Julius Evola

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

~H.L. Mencken

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

+Saint Augustine

“Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving - born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way. Convention is simply the ossification of social customs. The activities of conventional people are merely excuses for NOT acting in a more integrally human way. Tradition nourishes the life of the spirit; convention merely disguises its interior decay.”

~Thomas Merton

"The Cross is a path of humility in which the infinite God becomes finite and then contracts to zero, only to resurrect and thereby unite a finite humanity within a newfound infinity... At the Cross, divine infinity and human finiteness intersect."

~William Dembski

"Perhaps if Man is finally to know the bodiless, timeless, transcendent Ground of the whole universe not as a mere philosophical abstraction but as the Lord who, despite this transcendence, is “not far from anyone of us”, as an utterly concrete Being whom man can fear, love, address, and “taste”, he must begin far more humbly and far nearer home, with the local altar, the traditional feast, and the treasured memories of God's judgements, promises, and mercies."

~C.S. Lewis

"I saw a child running for a long time after a flock of spring butterflies. And suddenly, when one of the butterflies was already at his fingertips, he left it and ran after another, which seemed to him more beautiful. And I said, "Such are the sons of men, and so they pursue many desires throughout their lives." In fact, your running around is tedious and aimless. When the hour of death comes for you, you will not be able to say what you were striving for. And you will enter another world empty handed and with a confused heart. And running tires the Sons of Heaven too, but it is not useless. And when the hour of their demise comes, they will be able to say what they were rushing and hurrying for. And in the next world their hands will be full of all kinds of blessings, and their hearts will receive rest."

+St. Nikolaj Velimirović

"It is no measure of health to be
well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

~J. Krishnamurti

“All forms of governments destroy themselves by carrying their basic principles to excess. Democracies become too free in politics, in economics, in morals - even in literature and art, until at last even the dogs in our homes rise up on their hind legs and demand their rights. Disorder grows to such a point that society will then abandon all its liberty to anyone who can restore order.”

~Will Durant

"Beauty reminds us that we are more than mere matter and that we long for meaning from outside ourselves. And that is why modernity hates it."

~Dean Abbott

"Those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. Celestial and divine beings have clearer judgements, an uncorrupted will, and the ability to achieve what they seek. Human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood. Their ultimate enslavement is when they give themselves up to vice and no longer exercise their powers of reason. They have lowered their eyes from the highest truth to dark, base things and are wrapped in a cloud of ignorance. They give in to destructive whims and consent to things that strengthen their bonds of slavery. They have brought this upon themselves and are captives of the exercise of their innate freedom. But still, providence looks after them from eternity, sees what they do, and disposes rewards and punishments according to what each person deserves.”

~Boethius

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”

~Dorothy Leigh Sayers

“A society in which men and women are governed by Belief in an enduring moral order by a strong sense of right and wrong, by personal convictions about justice and honour, will be a good society.”

~Russell Kirk

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too — for the argument depended on saying that the world was reaily unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies."

~C.S. Lewis

"If there were not God, there would be no atheists."

~G.K. Chesterton