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Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.
— Richard M. Weaver
The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.
— Richard M. Weaver
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Dear Lord, please allow this woman to see me for who I am, and not what I appear to be.
— Scott Hildreth
Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?
— Joe Wurzelbacher
The South is a region that history has happened to.
— Richard M. Weaver
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.
— Richard M. Weaver
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.
— Richard M. Weaver
Knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.
— Richard M. Weaver
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.
— Richard M. Weaver
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
— Richard M. Weaver
When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .
— Richard M. Weaver
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.
— Richard M. Weaver
[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
— Richard M. Weaver
Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.
— Richard M. Weaver
The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.
— Richard M. Weaver
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
— Richard M. Weaver
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
— Duane Michals
The more a man has to indulge in, the less disposed he is to endure the discipline of toil
— Richard Weaver
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
— Richard M. Weaver
There's nothin' else I can do, but love you the best that I can.
— Avril Lavigne
The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
— Richard M. Weaver
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
— Gary Locke
Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
— Richard M. Weaver
Neuter discourse is a false idol.
— Richard M. Weaver
Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.
— Richard M. Weaver
No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
— Richard M. Weaver
The hero can never be a relativist.
— Richard M. Weaver
Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.
— Richard M. Weaver
Don't be down on that you're not up on.
— Harold B. Lee
Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.
— Richard M. Weaver
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.
— Richard M. Weaver