Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.
I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.