"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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― Christopher Dawson
More From Christopher Dawson
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
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- "A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent."― Guy Kawasaki
- "In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."― Voltaire
- "Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."― Casey Stengel