Quote by Christopher Dawson
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. - Chri

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. – Christopher Dawson

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Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. – Christopher Dawson

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You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. – Christopher Dawson

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Food
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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. – Christopher Dawson

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. – Socrates

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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. – Edwin Louis Cole

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I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. – Grover Cleveland

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The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free. – Henry David Thoreau

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