Christopher Dawson Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous Christopher Dawson quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.”
“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.”
“The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.”
“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.”
“Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.”
“Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.”
“Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.”
“American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.”
“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.”
“The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.”
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