The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. – Georges Bernanos
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. – Georges Bernanos
What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. – Georges Bernanos
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early