A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.