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“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice.”
― How to be a Conservative
― How to be a Conservative
“And I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I encountered in Eastern Europe. There is indeed such a thing as society; but it is composed of individuals. And individuals must be free, which means being free from the insolent claims of those who wish to redesign them.”
― How to be a Conservative
― How to be a Conservative
“Burke saw society as an association of the dead, the living and the unborn. It's binding principle is not contract, but something more akin to love. Society is a shared inheritance for the sake of which we learn to circumscribe our demands, to see our own place in things as part of a continuous chain of giving and recieving, and to recognize that the good things we inherit our not ours to spoil.”
― How to be a Conservative
― How to be a Conservative
“God is not present everywhere by being identical to everything in the universe (as in pantheism). God is not dispersed through the universe like an invisible gas. Instead God is present in the universe by sustaining and affecting every part of it.”
― Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love
― Why We're Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love
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