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Monday, September 17, 2012

Sound familiar?


"We dig deeper and we blow you higher.  We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honor and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves.  The silly sentamentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man!  We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs.  We have abolished Right and Wrong."

- Gregory to Syme, Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday



Sounds a bit like the current state of affairs, does it not?
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 at 9:11 PM

    Ah! Too true, too true! Isn't it funny to think that Chesterton said that back then?! It's just as bad (or worse) now! Another quote of his comes to mind when I read that...

    "It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them."

    G.K. Chesterton

    Although it may sound rather harsh, it's quite true. Years ago, men and women would have been scorned and shamed at some of the moral-less actions they chose to do! Where are our upright men/women to stand up and show our world a good example!?

    ~Mary

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