Gregory > Gregory's Quotes

“Youth was not made for pleasure, but for heroism.”
― Paul Claudel

“If the Revolution is disorder, the Counter-Revolution is the restoration of order. And by order we mean the peace of Christ in the Reign of Christ, that is, Christian civilization, austere and hierarchical, fundamentally sacral, antiegalitarian, and antiliberal.”
― Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution

“The aversion to intellectual effort, notably to abstraction, theorization, and doctrinal thought, can only induce, ultimately, a hypertrophy of the senses and of the imagination, resulting in the “civilization of the image,” about which Paul VI felt duty-bound to warn mankind.91 Also”
― Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution

“A universe of equal creatures would be a world in which the resemblance between creatures and the Creator would have been eliminated as much as possible. To hate in principle all inequality is, then, to place oneself metaphysically against the best elements of resemblance between the Creator and creation. It is to hate God.”
― Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution

“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
― Paul Bourget