"No traditional civilization has ever seen such large masses condemned to obscure, soulless, automatic labor, to slavery which does not even have as its counterpart the high stature and the tangible reality of figures of lords and rulers, but is found imposed in a seemingly innocuous way by the tyranny of the economic factor and the absurd structures of a more or less collectivized society. And the fact that the modern vision of life, in its materialism, has deprived the individual of any possibility of introducing into his destiny an element of transfiguration, of seeing in it a sign and a symbol, the slavery of today is the most gloomy and the most desperate of all that we have ever known."

~Julius Evola

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

~H.L. Mencken

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

+Saint Augustine

“Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving - born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way. Convention is simply the ossification of social customs. The activities of conventional people are merely excuses for NOT acting in a more integrally human way. Tradition nourishes the life of the spirit; convention merely disguises its interior decay.”

~Thomas Merton

"The Cross is a path of humility in which the infinite God becomes finite and then contracts to zero, only to resurrect and thereby unite a finite humanity within a newfound infinity... At the Cross, divine infinity and human finiteness intersect."

~William Dembski

"Perhaps if Man is finally to know the bodiless, timeless, transcendent Ground of the whole universe not as a mere philosophical abstraction but as the Lord who, despite this transcendence, is “not far from anyone of us”, as an utterly concrete Being whom man can fear, love, address, and “taste”, he must begin far more humbly and far nearer home, with the local altar, the traditional feast, and the treasured memories of God's judgements, promises, and mercies."

~C.S. Lewis

"I saw a child running for a long time after a flock of spring butterflies. And suddenly, when one of the butterflies was already at his fingertips, he left it and ran after another, which seemed to him more beautiful. And I said, "Such are the sons of men, and so they pursue many desires throughout their lives." In fact, your running around is tedious and aimless. When the hour of death comes for you, you will not be able to say what you were striving for. And you will enter another world empty handed and with a confused heart. And running tires the Sons of Heaven too, but it is not useless. And when the hour of their demise comes, they will be able to say what they were rushing and hurrying for. And in the next world their hands will be full of all kinds of blessings, and their hearts will receive rest."

+St. Nikolaj Velimirović

"It is no measure of health to be
well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

~J. Krishnamurti

“All forms of governments destroy themselves by carrying their basic principles to excess. Democracies become too free in politics, in economics, in morals - even in literature and art, until at last even the dogs in our homes rise up on their hind legs and demand their rights. Disorder grows to such a point that society will then abandon all its liberty to anyone who can restore order.”

~Will Durant

"Beauty reminds us that we are more than mere matter and that we long for meaning from outside ourselves. And that is why modernity hates it."

~Dean Abbott

"Those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. Celestial and divine beings have clearer judgements, an uncorrupted will, and the ability to achieve what they seek. Human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood. Their ultimate enslavement is when they give themselves up to vice and no longer exercise their powers of reason. They have lowered their eyes from the highest truth to dark, base things and are wrapped in a cloud of ignorance. They give in to destructive whims and consent to things that strengthen their bonds of slavery. They have brought this upon themselves and are captives of the exercise of their innate freedom. But still, providence looks after them from eternity, sees what they do, and disposes rewards and punishments according to what each person deserves.”

~Boethius

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”

~Dorothy Leigh Sayers

“A society in which men and women are governed by Belief in an enduring moral order by a strong sense of right and wrong, by personal convictions about justice and honour, will be a good society.”

~Russell Kirk

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too — for the argument depended on saying that the world was reaily unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies."

~C.S. Lewis

"If there were not God, there would be no atheists."

~G.K. Chesterton

"Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."

"By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books."

~Juvenal

“The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He’s the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.”

~G.K. Chesterton

“On the stormy sea that is the world, God is a rock, on which the righteous are saved and the wicked break their boat.”

+St. Nikolaj Velimirovic

"Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, everything passes, but God remains the same. Patience reaches it all; he who has God lacks nothing."

+St. Teresa of Avila

"Our potlatch is one of baseness, shamelessness, obscenity, debasement and abjection. This is the whole movement of our culture - it is here that we raise the stakes. Our truth is always to be sought in unveiling, desublimation, reductive analysis -- it is the truth of the repressed, of exhibition, of confession, of laying bare. Nothing is true if it is not de-sacralized, objectivized, shorn of its aura, dragged on to the stage. Our potlatch is the potlatch of indifference -- an in-differentiation of values, but also an indifference to ourselves. If we cannot lay our own lives on the line, this is because we are already dead. And it is this indifference and abjection that we throw out to the others as a challenge: the challenge to debase themselves in their turn, to deny their own values, to lay themselves bare, to make their confessions, to own up -- in short, to respond with a nihilism equal to our own."

~Jean Baudrillard

“When authority comes from the people it is vacillating; when it comes from God it is steadfast. It is either beyond all question, or it is no authority at all. Such is the lesson of history.”

~Honoré de Balzac

"It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves."

~Cicero