“Yet assuredly endeavors to reach any goal avail nothing unless you have learned what it is which leads you to the end at which you aim.”—Ibid., I.xxix
“For to my mind he is no free man, who is not sometimes doing nothing.”—Ibid., II.vi
“Let this then be my first counsel, that we show the student whom to copy, and to copy in such a way as to strive with all possible care to attain the most excellent qualities of his model.”—Ibid., II.xxii
“We live in a day when the love of all men is insistently proclaimed in theory, and massive hatred of all men is practiced in fact. We hear much about equality from men who tell us they are our superiors and therefore know what is best for us. We hear calls for unity from men whose every action divides us.”—R. J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty
“Behind every system of law there is a god. To find the god in any system, locate the source of law in that system.”—Rushdoony, Ibid.
“A scientific world is a controlled world, a world of experimentation, and valid experiments require a control of all factors. As a result, scientific society is a planned society, a society in which there is and can be no liberty, because liberty is not possible in a situation of scientific planning.”—Rushdoony, Ibid.
“The Western liberal pays lip service to a few Christian ideas, holds to a Marxist environmentalism, and an English parliamentarianism. Like the mule, he is a hybrid, and just as sterile.”—Rushdoony, Ibid.
“The law of unintended consequences is pretty much the governing principle of narrative art.”—William Derisciwitz, Excellent Sheep
“There is nothing so rooted in the heart but it may by neglect in process of time lose its force and vigour. If you neglect the old wound it grows callous, and in proportion as it loses feeling it becomes incurable. In fact, severe unceasing pain cannot last long; if it is not got rid of some other way, it must of necessity be conquered by itself. Beyond a doubt it will either be relieved by some remedy, or it will end in stupefaction. Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect?”—Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration I.2
“What then is a hard heart? It is a heart which is not torn by remorse, nor softened by affection, nor moved by entreaties; which does not yield to threats, but is hardened by scourges. It is ungrateful for kindnesses, faithless in counsel, cruel in judgement, shameless in disgrace, without sense of fear in the midst of danger, inhuman in things human, heedless, in things divine; it forgets the past, neglects the present, does not look on to the future. It is a heart emptied of all the past except the wrongs it has suffered, which lets slip all the present, which has no forecast of the future, no preparation to meet it, unless perchance it be with a view to gratifying its malice. And, that I may briefly sum up the mischief of this dreadful plague, it is a heart which neither fears God nor respects man.”—Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration I.2
“For the fruit of these things, what is it but spiders’ webs?”—Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration I.2
“We live in a day when the love of all men is insistently proclaimed in theory, and massive hatred of all men is practiced in fact. We hear much about equality from men who tell us they are our superiors and therefore know what is best for us. We hear calls for unity from men whose every action divides us.”—R. J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty
“Behind every system of law there is a god. To find the god in any system, locate the source of law in that system.”—Rushdoony, Ibid.
“A scientific world is a controlled world, a world of experimentation, and valid experiments require a control of all factors. As a result, scientific society is a planned society, a society in which there is and can be no liberty, because liberty is not possible in a situation of scientific planning.”—Rushdoony, Ibid.
“The Western liberal pays lip service to a few Christian ideas, holds to a Marxist environmentalism, and an English parliamentarianism. Like the mule, he is a hybrid, and just as sterile.”—Rushdoony, Ibid.
“The law of unintended consequences is pretty much the governing principle of narrative art.”—William Derisciwitz, Excellent Sheep
“There is nothing so rooted in the heart but it may by neglect in process of time lose its force and vigour. If you neglect the old wound it grows callous, and in proportion as it loses feeling it becomes incurable. In fact, severe unceasing pain cannot last long; if it is not got rid of some other way, it must of necessity be conquered by itself. Beyond a doubt it will either be relieved by some remedy, or it will end in stupefaction. Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect?”—Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration I.2
“What then is a hard heart? It is a heart which is not torn by remorse, nor softened by affection, nor moved by entreaties; which does not yield to threats, but is hardened by scourges. It is ungrateful for kindnesses, faithless in counsel, cruel in judgement, shameless in disgrace, without sense of fear in the midst of danger, inhuman in things human, heedless, in things divine; it forgets the past, neglects the present, does not look on to the future. It is a heart emptied of all the past except the wrongs it has suffered, which lets slip all the present, which has no forecast of the future, no preparation to meet it, unless perchance it be with a view to gratifying its malice. And, that I may briefly sum up the mischief of this dreadful plague, it is a heart which neither fears God nor respects man.”—Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration I.2
“For the fruit of these things, what is it but spiders’ webs?”—Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration I.2
