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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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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. – Christopher Dawson

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Religion
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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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positive
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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. – Christopher Dawson

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Men
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teachers instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. – Xun Zi

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We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has. – Gamaliel Bradford

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt

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