"As soon as men decide that all means……" — Christopher Dawson
"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
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36 Quotes by Christopher Dawson
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
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The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the…
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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the…
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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give,…
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to…
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human…
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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the…
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The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings…
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The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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