In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

I'm much too modest a person.

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.