The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.
Richard M. WeaverWe cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.
Richard M. WeaverWe approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
Richard M. WeaverSomehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.
Richard M. Weaver