Revolt Against The Modern World

"Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes." ~Peter Kreeft

"Men are tired to disgust of money economy. They hope for salvation from somewhere or other, for some real thing of honor and chivalry, of inward nobility, of unselfishness and duty. ~Oswald Spengler

“Anyone wishing to conquer a people could do it by using this system: breaking its ties with heaven and land, introducing fratricidal quarrels and fights, promoting immorality and licentiousness, by material ruin, physical poisoning, drunkenness. All these destroy a nation more than being blasted by thousands of cannon or bombed by thousands of airplanes.” ~Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. / Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. / Worthy of reverence because it really understands human nature. / Attractive because it promises true good.” ~Blaise Pascal, The Pensées

"We are witnessing, not the natural end of a great human civilization, but the birth of a inhuman civilization that could never have come into being without a vast, an immense, a universal sterilisation of life's highest values." ~George Bernanos

"Moderns seek change; tradition sought permanence." “Traditions are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.” ~Sir Roger Scruton

“Men are often called intelligent wrongly. Intelligent men are not those who are erudite in the sayings and books of the wise men of old, but those who have an intelligent soul and can discriminate between good and evil. They avoid what is sinful and harms the soul; and with deep gratitude to God they resolutely adhere by dint of practice to what is good and benefits the soul. These men alone should truly be called intelligent.” +Saint Anthony The Great

“With no significant political forces opposing the conversion of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is the struggle to retain one’s humanity in an increasingly artificial world. That is the only battle that retains any genuine significance from a traditional perspective.” ~Julius Evola

"We find ourselves in a world of ruins—we should not forget this. And just how much may still be saved depends only on the existence or lack of men who are still capable of standing among these ruins, not in order to dictate any formulas, but to serve as examplars; not by pandering to demagogy and the materialism of the masses, but in such a way as to reawaken different forms of sensibility and interest.” ~Julius Evola

"As a soldier of Christ, your virtues may be objects of hatred for the wicked, but they will never lack the approbation of the good and wise, which is the greatest and only desirable honour." ~Pope Leo XIII

"It's not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a god-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero." ~Thomas Carlyle

"The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique." ~G.K. Chesterton

"The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always been objected to being governed at all." “I tell you I am sometimes sick of my trade when I see how perpetually it means merely a war upon the ignorant and the desperate...We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart goes out to them." - Police officer "When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be the rich." ~G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

"Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created." ~Roger Scruton

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career." ~C.S. Lewis

"The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty by a wall of erudition." "Beauty has been stolen from the people and sold back to them under the concept of luxury." ~Sir Roger Scruton

"Nothing is really important except the rising generation. They tell us this over and over again, with slight variations of the same formula, and never seem to see what it involves. For if there be any word of truth in all this talk about the education of the child, then there is certainly nothing but nonsense in nine-tenths of the talk about the emancipation for the woman. If education is the highest function in the State, why should anybody want to be emancipated from the highest function in the State?... Nor can there be any doubt that there is truth in this claim for education. Only precisely the sort of which it is particularly true is the sort called domestic education. Private education really is universal, Public education can be comparatively narrow..." “The business done in the home is nothing less than the shaping of the bodies and souls of humanity. The family is the factory that manufactures mankind.” ~G.K. Chesterton

"Men crave duty; a cross to bear, a cause to defend, a family to protect." ~Mælurain

"There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society, successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion." ~Will Durant

"As man moves away from order, anguish presses around him. He is the king of his own misery, a degraded sovereign in revolt against himself, without duties, without bonds, without community. Alone, in the midst of the universe, he runs, or rather he seeks to run, into nothingness.” ~Félicité de La Mennais