"The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a……" — Christopher Dawson
"The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism."
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36 Quotes by Christopher Dawson
Christopher Dawson has 36 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse…
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More Anarchy Quotes
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Grown men do not need leaders.
— Edward Abbey
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
— Alan Bennett
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle…
— Aeschylus
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
— Charles Bukowski
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
— Charles Bukowski
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