Quote by Christopher Dawson
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evi

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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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. – Christopher Dawson

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Faith
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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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Society
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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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The working men, Ill go by and theyll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, Oh, its a girl. Shes got blond hair and shes not out of shape, and then they say, Gosh, its Marilyn Monroe! – Marilyn Monroe

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I dont know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. – Coco Chanel

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Men

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general. – Lorraine Hansberry

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Men

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. – Avicenna

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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjold

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He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecclesiasticus – Bible

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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber

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Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

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