And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible, so that the responsibility of the service sector would not be overloaded.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.