Perhaps, then, someone might say: “Then are you not ashamed, Socrates, of having followed the sort of pursuit from which you now run the risk of dying?”

I would respond to him with a just speech: “What you say is ignoble, fellow, if you suppose that a man who is of even a little benefit should take into account the danger of living or dying, but not rather consider this alone whenever he acts: whether his actions are just or unjust, and the deeds of a good man or a bad."

~Plato, The Apology of Socrates

"The effects of this staleness is the same everywhere; it is seen in all drug-taking and dram-drinking and every form of the tendency to increase the dose. Men seek stranger things or more startling obscenities as stimulants to their jaded sense. They seek after mad oriental religions for the same reason. They try to stab their nerves to life... They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares."

~G.K. Chesterton

“Only those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty conspire effectively against today’s world.”

~Nicolás Gómez Dávila

We have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

2 Corinthians 4:2-9

"It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

~C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"He restores human nature to itself. He became man and kept his will dispassionate and free from rebellion against nature, so that it did not waver in the slightest from its own natural movement even with regard to those who crucified him."

+St. Maximos The Confessor

"The king of all dispassion suffered to exchange His own glory for our life. His purity descended to our life; but our filth had no effect on his purity."

+St. Gregory of Nyssa

“To suppose that majority rule functions only in a democracy is a fantastic illusion. The king, who is but one solitary individual, stands far more in need of the general support of society than any other form of government.”

~Bertrand de Jouvenal

"Those who hate tyrants should love kings."

~Victor Hugo

'Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
Beauty is a reflection of Divine bliss, and since God is Truth, the reflection of His bliss will be that mixture of happiness and truth which is to be found in all beauty.' - Frithjof Schuon, Sainte Chapelle, Paris, 13th century

“The man who makes a vow makes an appointment with himself at some distant time or place. The danger of it is that himself should not keep the appointment. And in modern times the terror of one self, of weakness and mutability of oneself, has perilously increased, and is the real basis of the objection to the vows of any kind... Everywhere there is a persistent and insane attempt to obtain pleasure without paying for it. Thus, in politics, the modern Jingoes practically say: ‘Let us have The pleasures of the conquerors without the pain of the soldiers: Let us sit on sofas and be a hearty race.” Thus, in religion and morals, the decadent mystics say: ‘Let us have the fragrance of sacred purity without the sorrows of self-restraint; let us sing hymns alternatively to the Virgin and Priapus.’ Yes, in love, a free-lover says: ‘Let us have the splendor of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times.”

~G.K. Chesterton

"After centuries of "enslavement", the woman wanted to become free and exist for herself. Feminism, however, was unable to give women any other personality than that which they can give to the mere imitation of men. Thus her claims are nothing but a mask for a thorough mistrust of the new woman towards herself: i.e. for her inability to be and to be considered what she is; as a woman and not as a man. Feminism is based on the premise that the woman as such has no value, that she can only be valid insofar as she becomes as much a man as possible and claims the same prerogatives of the man. Feminism is therefore a symptom of degeneration in the strictest sense of the word."

~Julius Evola

"Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men."

~Francis Parker Yockey

"Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove."

~G.K. Chesterton

“A man’s faith consists not in the many things he is in doubt of, and tries to believe, but in the few he is assured of, and has no need of effort for believing.”

~Thomas Carlyle

“To protect and serve their own interests, the wealthy and privileged have used feminists and pacifists to promote a masculinity that has nothing to do with being good at being a man, and everything to do with being what they consider a “good man.” Their version of a good man is isolated from his peers, emotional, effectively impotent, easy to manage, and tactically inept.”

~Jack Donovan, The Way of Men

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

~Plato

"Beauty is an ultimate value– something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should be therefore compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values, which justify our rational inclinations."

~Sir Roger Scruton

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

~C.S. Lewis

"Never has there been such an age of false teachers as this pitiful twentieth century, so rich in material gadgets and so poor in mind and soul. Every conceivable opinion, even the most absurd, even those hitherto rejected by the universal consent of all civilized people - now has its platform and its own 'teacher'."

+Fr. Seraphim Rose

“The hardest task before most of us is not to learn, but to unlearn. Many of God’s own children have drunk so deeply of the sweetened poison of Satan, that it is by no means easy to get it out of their systems; and while it remains in them, it stupefies their understanding.”

~A.W. Pink