Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
