Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Love’s way of dealing with us is different from conscience’s way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God’s will and refusing to do it.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man’s strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life’s purpose.
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse.
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don’t wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff – well, it might as well be dead.
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
A city that outdistances man’s walking powers is a trap for man.