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Christopher Dawson Quotes

1889–1970 England

Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 1889 – 25 May 1970) was an English Catholic historian, independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and emphasized the necessity on how Western culture must be in continuity with Christianity to not stagnate and deteriorate.

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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 Judgement of the Nations (1942)

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

Progress and Religion (1929)

In reality the existing tendency toward social uniformity is far from solving the problem of social organization; it merely provides the material, the unorganized mass, which has to be informed by living spirits and ordered to some higher end. Without this, social uniformity can mean no more than a reversion to barbarism, and democracy nothing more than the rule of the herd.

Beyond Politics (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Dawson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.