5 quotes
All young [religious] sects are at bottom hostile to State and property, class and rank, and are attracted to universal equality.
The Hour of Decision (1933)
And that, at bottom, is the intention. We do not seek to alter and improve, but to destroy.
The Hour of Decision (1933)
Once the command wavers in its intentions and its attitude — or itself abdicates, as in 1918 — the bravest regiment becomes on the spot a cowardly and helpless herd.
The Hour of Decision (1933)
It is a piece of intellectual stupidity to want to substitute something else for the social structure that has grown up through the centuries and is fortified by tradition. There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.
The Hour of Decision (1933)
At the end of the [eighteenth] century Spain had long ceased to be a great power, and France was on the way to following her example. Both were old and exhausted nations, proud but weary, looking towards the past, but lacking the true ambition—which is to be strictly differentiated from jealousy—to continue to play a creative part in the future.
The Hour of Decision (1933)