Christopher Henry Dawson Quotes

#1. Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#2. Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#3. The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#4. Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#5. 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.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#6. When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds.

Christopher Henry Dawson

#7. The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.

Christopher Henry Dawson