Steve Turley > Quotes

“Lewis is basically arguing that in a world governed by manipulation, control, domination, there must arise by definition two classes of people: manipulators and manipulatees, or conditioners and the conditioned as he calls them. There will be those who have the technical competencies for control over nature, and then there will be the supposed beneficiaries of such competencies who, being mere products of nature, are nevertheless vulnerable to becoming objects of that control.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“Athletics in the classical world were inextricably linked to the virtue of self-mastery or self-control, (engkratia), the formation of an excellent disposition, which was the key virtue that separated the Greek from the Barbarian.”
― Steve Turley, Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture

“Our public servants amassed such money and authority that they became our masters. Their creation swelled cancerously as they gorged on the toil of the people. Our rulers became sick with power, and their virtue signaling produced feverish absurdities: Men can be women. Genders are unlimited. Children should be disfigured. Free speech is violence. Borders are racist. The real victims of crime are the criminals. And last November, in front of the entire world, to the horror of the Ancien Régime, the cancer they could not stop feeding killed them all.”
― Steve Turley, AMERICA AWAKENED: The Collapse of Globalism and the Return to Faith, Family, and Freedom

“Lewis’ solution is for us to re-embrace the Tao, the doctrine of objective values as the only source for our true humanity. Scientific man who believes he has evolved beyond our infantile past has been served a summons by Lewis: become once again as little children, born anew.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“Perhaps one of the more profound observations that Lewis makes is that education is inescapably enculturation; education is a means by which one is initiated into a culture, into a particular way of being human.”
― Steve Turley, Classical vs. Modern Education: A Vision from C.S. Lewis

“Natural law theory recognizes that to be human means that we are endowed with a moral conscience which knows innately the moral order of the universe as God has created it.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“as G.K. Chesterton wrote in his Orthodoxy: “The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”
― Steve Turley, Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture